Music Premiere
1954 Sandy Wilson's musical "The Boy Friend", cast includes Julie Andrews, making her Broadway debut, opens at the Royale Theatre, NYC; runs for 485 performances
Film & TV History
1955 American actor and cultural icon James Dean is killed in a car crash aged 24
- 1957 WKYT TV channel 27 in Lexington, KY (CBS) begins broadcasting
Television Premiere
1960 "The Flintstones" the first animated sitcom created by Hanna-Barbera premieres on ABC in the US
Music Single
1968 The Supremes release single "Love Child"
Album Release
1977 Ringo Starr releases album "Ringo the 4th"
- 1984 CBS' premiere of "Murder She Wrote", starring Angela Landsbury
Film & TV History
1985 Howard Stern gets fired from WNBC AM (NY)
Music Concert
1987 Roy Orbison and friends (including James Burton; Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, and k.d. lang) film performance at the Ambassador Hotel's Coconut Grove nightclub in Los Angeles, California for Cinemax
TV Show Appearance
1988 Robin Givens and Mike Tyson appear on Barbara Walter's Show
- 1992 Mariel Hemmingway appears nude on TV show Civil Wars