- 1939 In the first televised college football game, Fordham beats Waynesburg, 34-7 at Randalls Island, NY
- 1947 In first televised World Series Baseball game, NY Yankees beat Brooklyn Dodgers, 5-3 in Game 1 at Yankee Stadium; also largest WS crowd to date, 73,365
- 1950 Radio's "Grand Ole Opry" is broadcast on TV for 1st time
- 1950 WSM TV channel 4 in Nashville, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1953 WICS TV channel 20 in Springfield, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1953 WMT (now KGAN) TV channel 2 in Cedar Rapids-Waterloo, IA (CBS) begins
The Boy Friend
1954 Sandy Wilson's musical "The Boy Friend", cast includes Julie Andrews, making her Broadway debut, opens at the Royale Theatre, NYC; runs for 485 performances
James Dean Dies in Car Crash
1955 American actor and cultural icon James Dean is killed in a car crash aged 24
- 1957 WKYT TV channel 27 in Lexington, KY (CBS) begins broadcasting
The Flintstones
1960 "The Flintstones" the first animated sitcom created by Hanna-Barbera premieres on ABC in the US
Love Child
1968 The Supremes release single "Love Child"
Ringo the 4th
1977 Ringo Starr releases album "Ringo the 4th"
- 1984 CBS' premiere of "Murder She Wrote", starring Angela Landsbury
Howard Stern Fired
1985 Howard Stern gets fired from New York City radio station WNBC-AM
Roy Orbison and Friends
1987 Roy Orbison and friends (including James Burton; Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, and k.d. lang) film performance at the Ambassador Hotel's Coconut Grove nightclub in Los Angeles, California for Cinemax
Givens, Tyson and Barbara Walter
1988 Robin Givens and Mike Tyson appear on Barbara Walter's Show
Jerry Springer
1991 Jerry Springer's tabloid talk show "Jerry Springer" debuts on TV (syndicated)
- 1992 Mariel Hemmingway appears nude on TV show Civil Wars
