Music Premiere
1936 Cole Porters musical "Red Hot And Blue", starring Ethel Merman, Jimmy Durante, and Bob Hope, opens at the Alvin Theatre, NYC; runs for 183 performances
Film & TV History
1956 NBC anchors Chet Huntley and David Brinkley first team up in "The Huntley–Brinkley Report"
- 1970 WYEA (now WLTZ) TV channel 38 in Columbus, GA (NBC) 1st broadcast
Film Premiere
1971 Frank Zappa's musical mockumentary "200 Motels", starring The Mothers of Invention, Theodore Bikel, and Ringo Starr premieres in Beverly Hills, California
Music Premiere
1977 John Kander and Fred Ebb's musical "The Act", starring Liza Minnelli, opens at Majestic Theater, NYC; runs for 233 performances and wins a Tony Award
- 1998 ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of STS-95 space shuttle mission
Film Premiere
2008 "Quantum of Solace" 22nd James Bond film starring Daniel Craig and Olga Kurylenko, premieres in London
- 2020 Three people stabbed to death in church in Nice, France, in an terrorist attack, after similar attack and President Macron's defense of right to publish cartoons of Prophet Muhammad
