The Ten Commandments
1923 Cecil B. DeMille's first version of the film "The Ten Commandments" premieres in the US
- 1953 KVFD (now KTIN) TV channel 21 in Ft Dodge, IA (NBC) 1st broadcast
- 1953 WJBF TV channel 6 in Augusta, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1960 Tinseltown dedicated its Walk of Fame at Hollywood Blvd & Vine St
- 1965 The Beatles film promotional video clips for 5 of their songs at Twickenham Film Studios to provide to television outlets (in lieu of live appearances)
- 1968 Musical revue "Noël Coward's Sweet Potato" closes at Booth Theatre, NYC, after 44 performances
- 1970 KNCT TV channel 46 in Belton/Killeen, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
A Christmas Carol
1984 "A Christmas Carol" directed by Clive Donner starring George C. Scott premieres in the UK
- 1996 Irene Skliva, 18, of Greece, crowned 46th Miss World
- 2004 World of Warcraft, a multiplayer online role-playing video game, is released and becomes the world's most subscribed game
- 2013 "The Day of the Doctor" 50th anniversary episode of "Doctor Who" screens on BBC One, 1st episode to feature 12th Doctor Peter Capaldi
- 2018 Italian designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana apologize for culturally insensitive video and media posts insulting Chinese culture, cancel Shanghai fashion show
- 2021 NASA launches its DART Mission, to test technology to prevent future impact on earth by hazardous asteroid, by deliberately crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid (in a real life echo of the movie Armageddon) [1]
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