1st Boxing Match Film
1894 Employed by Thomas Edison, William K.L. Dickson films first boxing match at West Orange, New Jersey, an exhibition between world heavyweight champion James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney
- 1921 1st Miss America crowned in Atlantic City - Margaret Gorman (16) of Washington, D.C.
#1 in the Charts
1956 Harry Belafonte's album "Calypso" goes #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks
Psycho
1960 Nationwide release (US) of Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh
Hey, Hey – We're The Monkees
1965 Small ads in Daily Variety and Hollywood Reporter attract 437 young men interested in forming the world’s first manufactured boy band, "The Monkees" - 3 are chosen with British actor-singer Davy Jones already having been cast
Star Trek
1966 "Star Trek" premieres on NBC-TV starring William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy
- 1966 "That Girl" starring Marlo Thomas premieres on ABC-TV
- 1966 Star Trek premieres on television with the episode 'The Man Trap'
- 1973 "Star Trek - Animated Series" premieres on TV
- 1973 Rebecca Ann King (23), Miss Colorado, crowned 46th Miss America
- 1977 Interpol sends a resolution concerning video piracy
- 1979 Cheryl Prewitt (Miss), 22, crowned 52nd Miss America 1980
- 1981 British TV comedy "Only Fools and Horses" created by John Sullivan, starring David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst and Lennard Pearce premieres on BBC One
Film & TV History
1986 "The Oprah Winfrey Show" is first broadcast nationally
- 1996 48th Emmy Awards: ER, Dennis Franz & Kathy Baker win
Seven Guitars
1996 August Wilson's drama "Seven Guitars" closes at Walter Kerr Theater, NYC, after 188 performances
Ally McBeal
1997 TV series "Ally McBeal" starring Calista Flockhart, created by David E. Kelley premieres on Fox in the US
American Beauty
1999 "American Beauty", directed by Sam Mendes and starring Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, and Thora Birch, premieres in Los Angeles (Best Picture 2000)
- 1999 US Attorney General Janet Reno names former Senator John Danforth to head an independent investigation of the 1993 fire at the Branch Davidian church near Waco, Texas in response to revelations in the film "Waco The Rules of Engagement"
I'm Not Rappaport
2002 Revival of Herb Gardner's stage comedy "I'm Not Rappaport", starring Judd Hirsch and Ben Vereen, closes at the Booth Theatre, NYC, after 53 performances
The Rachel Maddow Show
2008 TV news show "The Rachel Maddow Show" hosted by Rachel Maddow" and based on her radio show premieres on MSNBC
Film & TV History
2015 Comedian Stephen Colbert debuts as the new host of CBS's "The Late Show"
- 2018 75th Venice International Film Festival: a Netflix film wins the Golden Lion for the first time with "Roma"
