Meet Me In St Louis
1944 Film musical "Meet Me In St Louis", starring Judy Garland, and directed by Vincente Minnelli, premieres at Loew’s State Theater on Washington Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri
Making Connery a Star
1961 Producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman announce expensive publicity campaign to make Sean Connery (James Bond) a star
- 1964 WITF TV channel 33 in Harrisburg-Hershey, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees
1965 "Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees" is broadcast on CBS and watched by 25 million viewers, bringing Jane Goodall to international attention
- 1967 BBC unofficially bans "I Am the Walrus" by Beatles, due to the suggestive lyric “Boy, you've been a naughty girl you let your knickers down."
The Producers
1967 Mel Brooks' first film, "The Producers" starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder has a disastrous premiere and is almost shelved - later goes on to win an Oscar and achieve cult status
- 1968 First interracial kiss on TV (Star Trek, Captain Kirk and Uhura)
Fred Roger's Sweater
1984 Fred Rogers of PBS "Mr Rogers, Neighborhood" presents a sweater to Smithsonian Institution
- 1987 Two Chicago TV stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom
- 1989 Aneta Kreglicka of Poland, 24, crowned 39th Miss World
Phool Aur Kaante
1991 "Phool Aur Kaante", the film debut of famous Indian actor Ajay Devgan, is released
Laughter on the 23rd Floor
1993 Neil Simon's comedy "Laughter on the 23rd Floor", inspired by his early job writing for Sid Caesar, opens at Richard Rodgers Theater, NYC; runs for 320 performances
Toy Story
1995 "Toy Story," the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery, directed by John Lasseter and starring Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, is released
How Do You Like Me Now?!
1999 "How Do You Like Me Now?!" single released by Toby Keith (Billboard Song of the Year 2000)
- 2002 In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest
- 2005 Ted Koppel retires from late night television news program "Nightline with Ted Koppel", after 25 years with the show, 41 Emmy Awards, and 42 years with ABC
- 2008 YouTube hosts the largest ever live broadcast, YouTube Live
Cohen Attacks Facebook
2019 Sacha Baron Cohen says if Facebook existed in the 1930s it would have run Hitler's ads on his "solution to the Jewish problem", in speech to Anti-Defamation League summit
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