- 1938 World's first science fiction TV program - a broadcast of the play R.U.R. by Karel Čapek
- 1954 6th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Donald O'Connor & Eve Arden win
- 1957 KUMV TV channel 8 in Williston, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1958 WTVC TV channel 9 in Chattanooga, TN (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1958 BBC pioneering series "Your Life in Their Hands" first broadcast presented by Dr. Charles Fletcher, 1st major TV series to deal with medicine
Music Recording
1983 "Weird Al" Yankovic records "Ricky" & "Buckingham Blues" debut LP
Weird Al Yankovic
- 1993 43rd Berlin International Film Festival: "Woman Sesame Oil Maker" and "The Wedding Banquet" win the Golden Bear (tie)
- 1994 Lu Parker, (South Carolina), crowned 43rd Miss USA
- 1998 48th Berlin International Film Festival: "Central Station" wins the Golden Bear
- 2007 60th British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS): "The Queen" Best Film, Paul Greengrass Best Director
- 2010 60th Berlin International Film Festival: "Honey" wins the Golden Bear
- 2014 11 people are killed after a grenade was tossed into a movie theatre in Peshawar, Pakistan
- 2016 Sixth Democratic presidential candidates debate, broadcast on CNN and PBS, and held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
