- 1940 Bugs Bunny, Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Tex Avery, Bob Givens (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series), first debuts in "Wild Hare"
Event of Interest
1990 Zsa Zsa Gabor begins a 3 day jail sentence for slapping a police officer in Beverly Hills
Zsa Zsa Gabor
- 1993 NBC TV awarded 1996 Olympic coverage for $456 million
- 1995 28th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center
- 2007 Two News helicopters from Phoenix, Arizona television stations KNXV and KTVK collide over Steele Indian School Park in central Phoenix while covering a police chase; there were no survivors. Worst civil aviation incident in Phoenix history.
- 2018 CBS Chairman Leslie Moonves is accused of sexual misconduct in the "New Yorker" by Ronan Farrow