Sports History
1914 Charlie Chaplin debuts silent film character The Tramp in "Kid Auto Races at Venice"
- 1936 Felix the Cat, animated film released by Van Beuren Studios licensed from Otto Messmer
Film Premiere
1940 Walt Disney's second feature length movie, "Pinocchio" premieres (NYC)
Music History
1941 Frank Sinatra & Tommy Dorsey orchestra record "Everything Happens to Me"
Music History
1944 Bing Crosby records "Swinging on a Star" for Decca Records (Academy Award Best Original Song)
Film & TV History
1961 Jane Fonda made her acting debut in the NBC drama "A String of Beads"
- 1970 "Hollywood Palace" last airs on ABC TV
Film Premiere
1974 Mel Brooks' western spoof film "Blazing Saddles", starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder premieres at the Pickwick Drive-In in Burbank, California; patrons watched from horseback rather than cars
- 1979 "Supertrain", TV Anthology, Superbomb of 1979, debuts on NBC
Music History
1984 Michael Jackson awarded a 4-ft-high platinum disc by CBS
- 1992 Shannon LA Rhea Marketic, 22, (California), crowned 41st Miss USA
Album Release
1993 Carmen Electra releases her self-titled debut album, "Carmen Electra"
- 1994 American actor and singer Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle, USMC) undergoes a liver transplant
Film & TV History
1994 Howard Stern stops a would-be jumper on the George Washington Bridge
- 2001 51st Berlin International Film Festival: "Intimacy" wins the Golden Bear
Film & TV History
2006 Uma Thurman is named a knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France for outstanding achievement in the field of art and literature
- 2008 58th Berlin International Film Festival: "Elite Squad" wins the Golden Bear
- 2013 63rd Berlin International Film Festival: "Child's Pose" wins the Golden Bear
