Radio Premiere
1932 Jack Benny's 1st radio show premieres (NBC Blue Network)
Film Release
1946 "The Postman Always Rings Twice" film based on the novel by James M. Cain, directed by Tay Garnett and starring Lana Turner and John Garfield is released
Film Release
1957 Hammer Film Productions releases its 1st color horror title - "The Curse of Frankenstein" starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee
Music Concert
1960 Harry Belafonte's 2nd Carnegie Hall performance
Music Premiere
1977 Revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical "The King & I"', with Yul Brynner reprising the role he created in 1951, opens at Uris Theater, NYC; runs for 695 performances
Academy of Country Music Awards
1979 14th Academy of Country Music Awards: Kenny Rogers and Barbara Mandrell win
Music Premiere
1984 Stephen Sondheim's musical "Sunday in the Park with George", a fictionalized version of painter Georges Seurat's relationship with his grandson, starring Mandy Patinkin, opens at Booth Theater, NYC; runs for 604 performances, wins a Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Film Release
1997 "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery", starring Mike Myers and Elizabeth Hurley, is released
Film & TV History
1997 Police arrest transsexual prostitute Atisone Seiuli with Eddie Murphy
Film Release
2008 First film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe released: "Iron Man" directed by Jon Favreau, starring Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark
Music History
2011 Flavor Flav is arrested on four outstanding misdemeanor warrants for various driving offenses
Film & TV History
2019 Facebook bans Alex Jones (InfoWars), Milo Yiannopoulos (ex-Breitbart), Louis Farrakhan (Nation of Islam), Paul Nehlen and Laura Loomer for hate speech
- 2019 For the first time all major US pageants won by black women after Cheslie Kryst wins Miss USA. joining Nia Franklin Miss America, and Kaliegh Garris Miss Teen USA
Film & TV History
2019 The cast of "The Big Bang Theory" are the first TV actors to be immortalized in cement outside Hollywood's Chinese theater in Los Angeles
- 2020 Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, the Icelandic actor who played Ser Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane in Game of Thrones, sets a world deadlifting record by lifting 501kg (1,104lb)