- 1923 Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio is founded by brothers Walt and Roy Disney in Los Feliz, California, marking the beginning of what would become Walt Disney Company
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1939 George Kaufman and Moss Hart's comedy "The Man Who Came to Dinner" opens at the Music Box Theatre in New York City and runs for 739 performances
- 1949 WDAF-TV Channel 4 in Kansas City, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1962 KTXT TV channel 5 in Lubbock, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1967 WETK TV channel 33 in Burlington, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1967 WGNO TV channel 26 in New Orleans, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1968 American Bob Seagren, Claus Schiprowski of West Germany, and East German Wolfgang Nordwig all record 5.40 m in the final of the pole vault at the Mexico City Olympics; Seagren is awarded gold on countback
- 1975 Louis LaRusso II's stage drama "Lampost Reunion," starring Danny Aiello, opens at the Little Theatre in New York City and runs for 77 performances
Not the Nine O'Clock News
1979 Comedy sketch show "Not the Nine O'Clock News," starring Rowan Atkinson, Chris Langham, Pamela Stephenson, and Mel Smith, debuts on BBC 2
Gilligan's Island
1992 Gilligan's Island TV pilot, filmed in 1963, is first shown on TV (TBS)
- 1994 "Addams Family" actor Raul Julia suffers a stroke
Film & TV History
2019 Netflix reveals its most popular original movie was Sandra Bullock's "Bird Box" and its most popular TV series was "Stranger Things" for the year
- 2023 Model of a Star Wars X-wing Starfighter used in a "Star Wars" film sells for over $3 million from the collection of Hollywood model maker Greg Jein [1]
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