Gone With The Wind
1939 "Gone with the Wind", drama film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh, premieres in Atlanta (Best Picture 1940, highest-grossing film of all time unadjusted for inflation)
- 1952 KHON TV channel 2 in Honolulu, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting
Two's Company
1952 Vernon Duke, Ogden Nash and Sammy Cahn's musical revue "Two's Company", starring Bette Davis, and choreographed by Jerome Robbins, opens at Alvin Theater, NYC; runs for 90 performances
- 1953 WJHG TV channel 7 in Panama City, FL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1956 KGW TV channel 8 in Portland, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1956 WRAL TV channel 5 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1961 Equal access rule, US political parties get TV broadcasting time
The First Family
1962 Comedian and impressionist Vaughn Meader's album "The First Family" hits #1 and stays #1 for 12 weeks
- 1973 Pirates of Caribbean ride opens at Disneyland
Bowie on SNL
1979 British rocker David Bowie performs three songs on American television program Saturday Night Live - "The Man Who Sold the World", "TVC-15" and "Boys Keep Swinging"
Spice World
1997 "Spice World" movie directed by Bob Spiers and starring girl pop group the Spice Girls premieres in the UK
- 2011 ESPN and the NCAA extend their TV rights deal through 2023-24, giving the network worldwide multi-media rights to 24 NCAA championships for various sports; deal worth $500m
Hollywood Sexual Harassment Commission
2017 Anita Hill is appointed to lead a Hollywood commission on sexual harassment, spearheaded by Kathleen Kennedy
- 2017 Pakistani teenager Ahed Tamimi filmed slapping Israeli officers during protest, arrested 4 days later
2020 UK newspaper "The Sun" publishes recording of Tom Cruise berating his film crew for breaking COVID-19 protocols
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