Steamboat Willie
1928 Test footage first created for Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" with Mickey Mouse
Come Back Little Sheba
1950 William Inge's stage drama "Come Back, Little Sheba", starring Shirley Booth and Sidney Blackmer, closes at the Booth Theatre, NYC, after 191 performances, and 2 Tony Award wins
Fellowship of the Ring
1954 Publication of "Fellowship of the Ring" 1st volume of "Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien by George Allen and Unwin in London
- 1956 WCKT (now WSVN) TV channel 7 in Miami, Florida (IND) begins broadcasting
Music History
1985 Singer Tina Turner films music video for the song “One Of The Living” at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; song is from the film "Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome" in which she co-starred with Mel Gibson
- 1988 South African government bans anti-apartheid film "Cry Freedom"
- 1992 American actor Ray Sharkey is arrested for narcotic possession
- 1992 Ira Lewis's one-act drama"Chinese Coffee" closes at Circle in the Square Theater, NYC, after 18 performances
- 1993 Walter Koenig (Chekov in Star Trek) suffers a mild heart attack
The Princess Diaries
2001 "The Princess Diaries", starring Anne Hathaway (in her film debut), featuring Julie Andrews, and directed by Garry Marshall, premieres at El Capitan theater in Hollywood
- 2015 "Sweat" by Lynn Nottage makes its premiere at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2017)
