- 1931 VARA begins experimental TV broadcast in Diamantbeurs Amsterdam
- 1940 1st radio broadcast of "Road to Happiness" on CBS
- 1947 1st commercial TV station west of Mississippi opens in Hollywood, California
Golden Globes
1954 11th Golden Globes: The Robe, Spencer Tracy, & Audrey Hepburn win
Audrey Hepburn
Spencer Tracy
- 1958 KRSD (now KEVN) TV channel 7 in Rapid City, SD (ABC) 1st broadcast
- 1968 "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" premieres on NBC
- 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, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism
Golden Globes
1994 51st Golden Globes: Schlinder's List, Tom Hanks, & Holly Hunter win
Tom Hanks
Holly Hunter
Event of Interest
2010 Conan O'Brien's last The Tonight Show episode after a big controversy over the Tonight Show timeslot
Conan O'Brien
- 2018 Netflix becomes the largest digital media and entertainment company in the world worth $100 billion
