- 1931 VARA begins experimental TV broadcast in Diamantbeurs Amsterdam
- 1940 First radio broadcast of "Road to Happiness" on CBS
- 1947 First commercial TV station west of Mississippi, KTLA (channel 5) in Los Angeles, California, begins broadcasting
- 1958 KRSD (now KEVN) TV channel 7 in Rapid City, SD (ABC) 1st broadcast
- 1968 "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" sketch comedy television program premieres on NBC
Film & TV History
1985 Kelly Hu, 16, of Hawaii, crowned 3rd Miss Teen USA
- 1987 Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself at a press conference on live national television, sparking debate about the boundaries of journalism
O'Brien's Last Tonight Show
2010 Conan O'Brien's last The Tonight Show episode after a big controversy over the Tonight Show timeslot
Call Me By Your Name
2017 "Call Me By Your Name", directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Timothée Chalamet, premieres at the Sundance Film Festival
- 2018 Netflix becomes the largest digital media and entertainment company in the world worth $100 billion
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