Johnny Weissmuller
1927 Johnny Weissmuller sets world records in both the 100m and 200m free style swimming events
Babe Ruth's Broadcasts
1934 Baseball superstar Babe Ruth agrees to do three 15-minute broadcasts a week over NBC for a fee of $39,000 for 13 weeks; $4,000 more than his NY Yankees playing contract
- 1948 WGN TV channel 9 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting
- 1949 Fireside Theater debuts on US television.
- 1953 WEYI TV channel 25 in Saginaw, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1966 WTVX TV channel 34 in Ft Pierce-Vero Beach, FL (IND) 1st broadcast
- 1970 WSNS TV channel 44 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting
- 1971 WNJT TV channel 52 in Trenton, New Jersey (PBS) begins broadcasting
Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land
1976 Tom Stoppard's play "Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land" premieres in London
- 1984 Galt MacDermot and William Dumaresq's musical "The Human Comedy", based on the novel by William Saroyan, opens at Royale Theater, NYC; runs for 13 performances
- 1987 Fox TV network premieres "Married... with Children" and "The Tracey Ullman Show"
1st TV Show in Dolby Stereo
1989 NBC's "Late Night With David Letterman" becomes 1st network TV show broadcast in Dolby Stereo
Film & TV History
1990 Paul Newman wins a court victory over Julius Gold, to keep giving all profits from Newman foods to charity
Music History
1994 "Jackie Mason Politically Incorrect" opens at Golden Theater, NYC; runs for 347 performances
- 2003 18th Soap Opera Digest Awards - General Hospital wins
Film & TV History
2017 Pepsi ad featuring Kendall Jenner pulled after criticized for trivializing demonstrations
2020 WrestleMania XXXVI, WWE Performance Center, Orlando FL, Part 2: Drew McIntyre defeats Brock Lesnar to win the WWE C'ship; Charlotte Flair beats Rhea Ripley for NXT Women's title
- 2021 Italy scraps its 1914 film censorship law that could ban films on moral and religious grounds
- 2063 Earth's 1st contact with the extraterrestrial Vulcan species in the Star Trek universe
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