- 1921 KDKA Pittsburgh presents first radio broadcast of MLB; Pirates beat Phillies, 8-0; Harold Arlin first play-by-play broadcaster
Houdini Escapes Underwater Coffin
1926 Harry Houdini stays in a coffin underwater for 1½ hours before escaping
From Here to Eternity
1953 "From Here to Eternity" based on book by James Jones, directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift and Frank Sinatra is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1954)
- 1956 KUAM TV channel 8 in Agana, Guam (CBS/ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1956 WCYB TV channel 5 in Bristol-Kingsport, Virginia (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1957 "American Bandstand" premieres on network TV (ABC)
- 1957 WJZ-TV in Baltimore, MD, begins television broadcasting
- 1968 WMCV (now WZTV) TV channel 17 in Nashville, TN (IND) 1st broadcast
- 1969 The UVF plant their first bomb in the Republic of Ireland, damaging the RTÉ Television Centre in Dublin
- 1971 WNPE TV channel 16 in Watertown, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
1998 The American spin-off "Whose Line Is It Anyway?", starring Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, and Wayne Brady, debuts on ABC
Film & TV History
2022 Actress Anne Heche crashes her car into a house in Mar Vista, Los Angeles, igniting a fire that puts her in a coma and destroys much of the house [1]
Film & TV History
2022 Jury in Austin, Texas decides 'Infowars' host Alex Jones should pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to parents of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim due to his promotion of false conspiracy theories that the massacre was a hoax [1]
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