Television Finale
1953 Milton Berle's TV show "Texaco Star Theater" last airs on NBC-TV
- 1960 ABC and AFL sign a 5 year contract
TV Show Appearance
1963 Barbra Streisand appears, for her third time, on "The Ed Sullivan Show"
- 1967 The Monkees appear at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California
Film & TV History
1980 Comedian Richard Pryor suffers severe burns from free basing cocaine
- 1984 Donald Duck's 50th birthday celebrated at Disneyland
Music History
1984 Weird Al Yankovic gives a live performance at Starlight Amphitheater
Film & TV History
2014 Laverne Cox becomes the first transgender person to appear on the cover of "Time" Magazine
Tony Awards
2019 73rd Tony Awards: "Hadestown" best musical, "The Ferryman" best play, Bryan Cranston and Elaine May win
- 2019 Ali Stroker becomes the first actress in a wheelchair to win a Tony award for musical "Oklahoma!"