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1997 5th annual ESPY Awards shown on TV

1994 David Lawson, executed in North Carolina (wanted execution shown on Donahue)

1992 1964 "Gilligan's Island" TV pilot 1st shown on TV (TBS)

1990 "Cartoon All Stars to Rescue" shown on all 4 TV networks

1989 "I Love Lucy" Christmas episode, shown for 1st time in over 30 years

1988 Shroud of Turin, revered by many Christians as Christ's burial cloth, is shown by carbon-dating tests to be a fake from the Middle Ages

1980 32nd Emmy Awards shown despite boycott

1978 Rutles "All You Need is Cash" is shown on British TV

1974 "Monty Python's Flying Circus" last shown on BBC

1971 Movie "Ben Hur" 1st shown on television

1969 Marcus Welby MD, a TV movie is shown on ABC-TV

1967 SST prototype "Concorde" 1st shown (France)

1961 1st in-flight movie shown, TWA

1950 1st transmission of a TV program from continental Europe shown on BBC

1948 1st newsreel telecast, "20th Century Fox-Movietone News" shown on NBC

1946 1st bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show

1944 "Patrolling the Ether" is shown on 3 TV stations simultaneously

1944 1st feature-length foreign movie, African Journey, shown on TV, New York City

1928 1st all-talking motion picture shown in New York (Lights of New York)

1926 Don Juan with John Barrymore shown

1925 1st film shown on an British Air flight

1923 1st sound on film public performance shown at Rialto Theater (New York City)

1922 1st successful technicolor movie (Tall of the Sea), shown in New York City

1914 "World, the Flesh and the Devil," 1st color film, shown in London

1914 1st full color film shown "World, Flesh and Devil" in London

1914 "Perils of Pauline" shown for 1st time in Los Angeles

1908 New York Giants scores shown on electric diamonds known as "Compton's Baseball Bulletin" at MSG

1906 1st motion pictures shown in Hawaii

1891 1st motion picture shown to National Federation of Women's Clubs

1878 Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House

1870 1st motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia


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