Sarah Bernhardt Debuts
1880 French actress Sarah Bernhardt makes her US debut at NY's Booth Theater
Mutiny on the Bounty
1935 "Mutiny on the Bounty" directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable premieres in New York (Best Production/Picture 1936)
- 1939 Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse's stage comedy "Life with Father" opens at Empire Theatre, NYC, later transferring to the Bijou, and then the Alvin Theatre; runs for 3224 performances
All The King's Men
1949 "All The King's Men" based on Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer winning novel, directed by Robert Rossen and starring Broderick Crawford premieres in New York (Best Picture 1950)
The Ten Commandments
1956 Biblical drama film "The Ten Commandments", directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner premieres at the Criterion Theater in NYC
- 1958 Gian Carlo Menotti's musical drama "Maria Golovin" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 5 performances
- 1959 KJTV (now KGET) TV channel 17 in Bakersfield, CA (NBC) 1st broadcast
- 1964 KUPK TV channel 13 in Garden City, KS (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1965 US soap opera "Days of Our Lives" premieres
Night & Day
1978 Tom Stoppard's play "Night & Day" premieres in London
- 1979 ABC broadcasts "Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage" with Frank Reynolds (forerunner to "Nightline")
Romantic Comedy
1979 Bernard Slade's stage comedy "Romantic Comedy", starring Mia Farrow and Anthony Perkins, opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, NYC; runs for 396 performances
Song and Dance
1986 Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Song and Dance", starring Bernadette Peters, closes at Royale Theater, NYC, after 474 performances and a Tony Award for Peters
- 1989 "Byker Grove" begins broadcasting on the BBC
- 1990 Gina Marie Tolleson of USA, 21, crowned 40th Miss World
- 1990 John Guare's stage drama "6 Degrees of Separation" starring Stockard Channing and Courtney B. Vance, opens at Vivian Beaumont Theatre, NYC; runs for 485 performances and a Tony Award
- 1992 Rupert Holmes' stage drama "Solitary Confinement", starring Stacy Keach, opens at the Nederlander Theater, NYC; runs for 25 performances
- 1995 Comedy revue "Danny Gans on Broadway: The Man of Many Voices" opens at Neil Simon Theater, NYC; runs for 6 performances
The World is Not Enough
1999 "The World is Not Enough" 19th James Bond film premieres in Los Angeles, starring Pierce Brosnan, Robert Carlyle, Robbie Coltrane, and Denise Richards
Sexiest Man Alive
2022 Actor Chris Evans named People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive, says “My mom will be so happy” [1]
