BBC Radio Sports
1923 Edgar Wallace becomes the first British radio sports journalist reporting on The Derby for the British Broadcasting Company (BBC)
- 1949 "It Pays To Be Ignorant" game show debut on CBS-TV
- 1949 WKY (now KTVY) TV channel 4 in Oklahoma City, OK (NBC) 1st broadcast
- 1951 1st Berlin International Film Festival opens
- 1968 WKHA TV channel 35 in Hazard, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
Finale of The Ed Sullivan Show
1971 Final broadcast of "The Ed Sullivan Show" (a repeat from 7 February) on CBS-TV
- 1971 WHAE (now WGNX) TV channel 46 in Atlanta, Georgia (CBN) begins broadcasting
20/20 Premieres
1978 US TV news program "20/20", created by Roone Arledge premieres on ABC
Octopussy Premieres
1983 "Octopussy", 13th James Bond film, starring Roger Moore, Maud Adams and Louis Jourdan premieres in London
1983 Betty White becomes 1st woman to win Outstanding Game Show Host at Daytime Emmy Awards for NBC's "Just Men"
- 1984 Video game Tetris is first released in the Soviet Union by Alexey Pajitnov
The Bourne Identity
2002 "The Bourne Identity" directed by Doug Liman and starring Matt Damon premieres in Los Angeles, California
- 2010 56th British Academy Television Awards: "The Armstrong and Miller Show" Best Comedy, "Misfits" Best Drama
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