- 1954 Sweden begins experimental television broadcasts from the Royal Institute of Technology
Huntley–Brinkley Report
1956 NBC anchors Chet Huntley and David Brinkley first team up on "The Huntley–Brinkley Report"
- 1970 WYEA (now WLTZ) TV channel 38 in Columbus, GA (NBC) begins broadcasting
200 Motels
1971 Frank Zappa's musical mockumentary "200 Motels," starring The Mothers of Invention, Theodore Bikel, and Ringo Starr, premieres in Beverly Hills, California
- 1991 American commercial fishing vessel (F/V) "Andrea Gail" and crew of six are lost at sea near Sable Island in North Atlantic Ocean; story becomes basis for the book and film "The Perfect Storm"
- 1998 ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of STS-95 space shuttle mission
- 2020 Three people stabbed to death in church in Nice, France, in an terrorist attack, after a similar attack and President Macron's defense of right to publish cartoons of Prophet Muhammad
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