- 1750 Carlo Goldoni's comedy "La Botega di Caffè" (The Coffee Shop) premieres in Mantua
Radio Premiere
1932 American comedian Jack Benny's 1st radio show premieres (NBC Blue Network)
The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946 "The Postman Always Rings Twice" film based on the novel by James M. Cain, directed by Tay Garnett, starring Lana Turner and John Garfield is released
- 1950 Carlo Terron's comedy "Giuditta" premieres in Milan
- 1952 John Cage's "Water Music" - for a solo pianist, using a piano, a radio, whistles, water containers, and a deck of cards - premieres in New York City
- 1953 KYTL (now KPNX) TV channel 12 in Mesa/Phoenix, Arizona AZ (NBC) begins broadcasting with a telethon to benefit United Cerebral Palsy
- 1955 WGBH TV channel 2 in Boston, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting
The Curse of Frankenstein
1957 Hammer Film Productions releases its 1st color horror title - "The Curse of Frankenstein" starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee
Music Concert
1960 Harry Belafonte's 2nd Carnegie Hall performance (New York City)
The King & I
1977 Revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical "The King & I"', with Yul Brynner reprising the role he created in 1951, opens at Uris Theater, NYC; runs for 695 performances
Academy of Country Music Awards
1979 14th Academy of Country Music Awards: Kenny Rogers and Barbara Mandrell win
Sunday in the Park with George
1984 Stephen Sondheim's musical "Sunday in the Park with George", a fictionalized version of painter Georges Seurat's relationship with his grandson, starring Mandy Patinkin, opens at Booth Theater, NYC; runs for 604 performances, wins a Pulitzer Prize for Drama
- 1990 Richard Nelson's stage comedy "Some Americans Abroad" opens at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, NYC; runs for 55 performances
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
1997 "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery", starring Mike Myers and Elizabeth Hurley, is released
Film & TV History
1997 Police arrest transsexual prostitute Atisone Seiuli with Eddie Murphy
Iron Man
2008 First film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe released: "Iron Man" directed by Jon Favreau, starring Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark
Music History
2011 Flavor Flav is arrested on four outstanding misdemeanor warrants for various driving offenses
Film & TV History
2019 Facebook bans Alex Jones (InfoWars), Milo Yiannopoulos (ex-Breitbart), Louis Farrakhan (Nation of Islam), Paul Nehlen and Laura Loomer for hate speech
- 2019 For the first time all major US pageants won by black women after Cheslie Kryst wins Miss USA. joining Nia Franklin Miss America, and Kaliegh Garris Miss Teen USA
Film & TV History
2019 The cast of "The Big Bang Theory" are the first TV actors to be immortalized in cement outside Hollywood's Chinese theater in Los Angeles
- 2020 Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, the Icelandic actor who played Ser Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane in Game of Thrones, sets a world deadlifting record by lifting 501kg (1,104lb)
- 2023 Writers Guild of America votes to begin striking over pay and industry changes, bringing television production to a halt [1]
