Little Nellie Kelly
1922 George M. Cohan's musical "Little Nellie Kelly" opens at the Liberty Theatre, NYC; runs for 276 performances - Cohan's longest run
- 1937 NBC forms the first full-sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio
Fantasia
1940 Walt Disney's animated film "Fantasia," starring Leopold Stokowski, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Mickey Mouse, and ballet-dancing hippopotamuses, premieres at the Broadway Theatre, NYC
- 1952 KLBK TV channel 13 in Lubbock, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1960 Fire in movie theater kills 152 children in Amude, Spain
- 1961 WCBB TV channel 10 in Augusta, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1963 Dale Wasserman's stage play "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", adapted from the novel by Ken Kesey, starring Kirk Douglas, Ed Ames; Joan Tetzel, and Gene Wilder, opens at Cort Theatre, NYC; runs for 82 performances
- 1965 Director Kenneth Tynan says the word "F*ck" on BBC
Flip Wilson
1966 American comedian Flip Wilson makes his debut appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show"; he returns 10 times [1]
Agnew's Accusation
1969 Vice President Spiro Agnew accuses network TV news departments of bias and distortion
Duel
1971 Steven Spielberg makes his feature-length film debut with the made-for-television movie "Duel"
- 1975 Marilyn Clark and Charles Burr's revue "A Musical Jubilee", featuring Lillian Gish. John Raitt, Tammy Grimes, Cyril Ritchard, and Dick Shawn opens at St James Theater, NYC; runs for 92 performances
- 1980 Gabriella Brum, 18, of West Germany crowned 30th Miss World; she resigns the next day because she wants to marry her 52-year-old boyfriend
- 1986 Giselle Jeanne-Marie LaRonde of Trinidad, 23, crowned 36th Miss World
Sonny & Cher
1987 Sonny & Cher perform together for the final time, singing "I Got You Babe" on 'Late Night with David Letterman' (NBC)
Blackpink
2019 South Korean girl group Blackpink are the first K-pop group to reach 1 billion views on YouTube for their single "Ddu-Du Ddu-Du"
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