Film Tv Events January 9 | History by KabAstro

Jeanie Deans

1860 Dion Boucicault's stage drama "Jeanie Deans" opens at Laura Keene's Theatre, NYC

1894 William K.L. Dickson's motion picture "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" aka "Fred Ott's Sneeze" receives first US copyright for the format; it was filmed a few days earlier at Edison Studio, West Orange, New Jersey [1]

1936 Noël Coward's stage drama "Astonished Heart" premieres in London

1940 James Thurber and Elliott Nugent's stage comedy "The Male Animal" opens at the Cort Theater. NYC; runs for 243 performances

1956 Musical "Peter Pan", starring Mary Martin broadcast live, for a 2nd time, on NBC as part of "Producers' Showcase" series

1959 TV western "Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood premieres on CBS

1976 Ringo Starr releases single "Oh My My" in the UK

1979 K-Mart pulls Steve Martin's "Let's Get Small" for being in "bad taste"

1989 "Pat Sajak Show" premieres on CBS

1996 1st episode of TV sitcom "3rd Rock from the Sun" by Bonnie and Terry Turner and starring John Lithgow and Kristen Johnston screens on NBC

1997 Heart attacks sends singer Frank Sinatra back to hospital

2000 26th People's Choice Awards: Harrison Ford & Julia Roberts win (Motion Picture) and Drew Carey & Calista Flockhart win (TV)

2001 American version of Belgian reality game show "The Mole" premieres on ABC-TV
2001 Apple announced iTunes at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, for organizing and playing digital music and videos

2002 29th American Music Awards: Janet Jackson and Lenny Kravitz win. Michael Jackson receives Artist of the Century award.

2005 31st People's Choice Awards: Johnny Depp & Julia Roberts win (Motion Picture) and Matt LeBlanc & Marg Helgenberger win (TV)

2006 11th Critics' Choice Movie Awards: Brokeback Mountain wins Best Film
2007 33rd People's Choice Awards: Johnny Depp & Jennifer Aniston win (Movie Star) and Patrick Dempsey & Eva Longoria win (TV)
2024 Armed gunmen storm a Ecuador Television network in Guayaquil during a live broadcast, amid a state of emergency in the country after increasing attacks and abductions [1]