Today's 24 December Film TV in History

Photo for the article Today's 24 December Film TV
  • 1860 Actor Joseph Jefferson's dramatization of "Rip Van Winkle" premieres in NYC
  • 1922 BBC broadcasts the first British radio play "The Truth About Father Christmas"
  • 1951 First opera commissioned for television - "Amahl and the Night Visitors" by Gian Carlo Menotti premieres on NBC with the NBC Opera Theater
  • 1953 KHOL (now KHGI) TV channel 13 in Kearney, NB (ABC) begins broadcasting
  • 1953 KOA (now KCNC) TV channel 4 in Denver, CO (NBC) begins broadcasting
  • 1968 WATU (now WAGT) TV channel 26 in Augusta, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
  • 1970 Walt Disney releases animated musical "The Aristocats" featuring voices of Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Hermione Baddeley, Sterling Holloway, and Scatman Crothers

Sinise Converts

2010 Gary Sinise converts to Catholicism, following his wife who converted in 2000


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