Today's 9 January Film TV in History

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Jeanie Deans

1860 Dion Boucicault's stage drama "Jeanie Deans" opens at Laura Keene's Theatre, NYC

  • 1894 William K.L. Dickson's motion picture "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" aka "Fred Ott's Sneeze" receives first US copyright for the format; it was filmed a few days earlier at Edison Studio, West Orange, New Jersey [1]

Astonished Heart

1936 Noël Coward's stage drama "Astonished Heart" premieres in London

  • 1940 James Thurber and Elliott Nugent's stage comedy "The Male Animal" opens at the Cort Theater. NYC; runs for 243 performances

Peter Pan

1956 Musical "Peter Pan," starring Mary Martin, is broadcast live for a second time on NBC as part of the "Producers' Showcase" series

Let's Get Small

1979 K-Mart pulls Steve Martin's "Let's Get Small" for being in "bad taste"

  • 1984 "TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes" premieres on NBC TV (Whoops)

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

1985 August Wilson's stage drama "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom", starring Theresa Merritt, and Charles S. Dutton, closes at the Cort Theatre, NYC, after 276 performances

3rd Rock from the Sun

1996 TV sitcom "3rd Rock from the Sun" by Bonnie and Terry Turner and starring John Lithgow, Jane Curtain, and Kristen Johnston debuts on NBC

Sinatra Suffers Heart Attack

1997 Heart attacks sends singer Frank Sinatra back to hospital

  • 2001 American version of Belgian reality game show "The Mole" premieres on ABC-TV
  • 2001 Apple announced iTunes at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, for organizing and playing digital music and videos
  • 2006 11th Critics' Choice Movie Awards: Brokeback Mountain wins Best Film
  • 2007 33rd People's Choice Awards: Johnny Depp & Jennifer Aniston win (Movie Star) and Patrick Dempsey & Eva Longoria win (TV)
  • 2024 Armed gunmen storm a Ecuador Television network in Guayaquil during a live broadcast, amid a state of emergency in the country after increasing attacks and abductions [1]

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