20th Academy Awards
1948 20th Academy Awards: "Gentleman's Agreement", Loretta Young, Ronald Colman win
1st Live Televised Symphony
1948 First live televised symphony performances: Eugene Ormandy leads Philadelphia Orchestra on CBS, followed 90 minutes later by Arturo Toscanini leading the NBC Orchestra on NBC
Academy Awards
1952 24th Academy Awards: "An American in Paris", Humphrey Bogart and Vivien Leigh win
Music History
1954 Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's musical "The King and I", starring Yul Brynner, closes at the St James Theater, NYC, after 1,246 performances
- 1955 KXTV TV channel 10 in Sacramento, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
The Happening
1967 The Supremes release single "The Happening"
- 1967 WOET (now WPTD) TV channel 16 in Dayton, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1973 NBC TV premiere of pilot episode of "Police Story", based on Los Angeles Police Dept. Joseph Wambaugh's writings
- 1987 Soap opera "Capitol" final episode
- 1987 Soviet filmmakers arrive in Hollywood for an entertainment summit
- 1994 14th Golden Raspberry Awards: "Indecent Proposal" wins
- 1994 WrestleMania X, Madison Square Garden, NYC: Bret Hart beats Yokozuna to win WWF Championship
- 1999 19th Golden Raspberry Awards: An Alan Smithee Film "Burn Hollywood Burn" wins
- 2010 56th National Film Awards (India): "Antaheen" wins the Golden Lotus
- 2012 Disney movie John Carter records one of the largest losses in cinema history with a $200 million dollar write down
Film & TV History
2018 Actress Cynthia Nixon announces she will run for New York Governor
- 2019 Four men arrested in South Korea for secretly filming 1,600 hotel guests and selling the footage via a website
Disney Acquires 21st Century Fox
2019 The Walt Disney Company acquires Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox entertainment business for $71 billion
