High Noon
1952 "High Noon", American Western film directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Gary Cooper and Thomas Mitchell, is released
Flora, the Red Menace
1965 John Kander and Fred Ebb's musical "Flora, the Red Menace", Their first collaboration stars Liza Minnelli (19) in her Broadway debut, closes at Alvin Theater, NYC, after 87 performances and a Tony Award for Liza
- 1971 WUHQ TV channel 41 in Battle Creek, Michigan (ABC) begins broadcasting
Death Wish
1974 "Death Wish", based on the novel by Brian Garfield, directed by Michael Winner and starring Charles Bronson is released in the US
- 1974 American newscaster Christine Chubbuck is the first person to commit suicide during a live TV broadcast at WXLT-TV
- 1978 Margaret Gardiner, of South Africa, crowned 27th Miss Universe
Mame
1983 Revival of Jerry Herman's musical "Mame", starring Angela Lansbury, opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 41 performances
Saving Private Ryan
1998 "Saving Private Ryan", directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Hanks, Edward Burns and Matt Damon, is released (Academy Awards Best Director 1999)
Film & TV History
2002 On 200th anniversary of his birth French author Alexandre Dumas' ('The Three Musketeers') ashes are interred in the Panthéon in Paris in a televised ceremony
Music Concert
2003 Ringo Starr's eighth All-Starr Band debuts in concert; members include: Colin Hay, Paul Carrack, John Waite, Sheila E., and Mark Rivera
Music History
2018 Singer Demi Lovato is hospitalized after a drug overdose in Los Angeles
