2015 Event U.S. President Barack Obama targets three organizations and ten officials in new financial sanctions issued against North Korea in response to the recent hacking attack on Sony Pictures 2014 Event Sony Corporation's gaming service is back online after a hacking attack disrupted its PlayStation Network; the company is probing whether this incident is related to the attack on its Sony Pictures Division earlier this month 2014 Event Sony Pictures releases its comedy 'The Interview' today in over 300 theaters and through online channels; the film depicts an attempted assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un and was initially canceled due to threats and hacking attacks 2014 Event Sony Pictures will release its controversial comedy, 'The Interview', about an attempted assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un; the film was canceled after hacking attacks and threats, but Sony now seeks a wide audience for the movie 2014 Event Sony Pictures cancels release of its movie "The Interview" after hacking attacks and threats thought to be ordered by the North Korean government; the movie is reportedly a comedy depicting an attempted assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un 2010 Event Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao releases pictures of the moon's Sinus Iridum, or Bay of Rainbows, taken during China's Chang e-2 lunar mission 1994 Death Arthur Krim, U.S. director (United Artists, Orion Pictures), dies 1993 Death Evelyn Venable, model (Columbia Pictures logo), dies of cancer at 80 1992 Event Vinson Pike fined 1000 pounds for distributing obscene computer pictures 1991 Event Orion Pictures filed Chapter 11 for bankruptcy protection 1989 Event Sony purchases Columbia Pictures for $3.4 billion cash 1987 Death Dana Suesse, songwriter (You Ought to be in Pictures), dies at 75 1985 Event Playboy publishes full frontal nude pictures of Madonna 1980 Event U.S. spacecraft Voyager I sent back 1st close-up pictures of Saturn 1978 Event Columbia Pictures pays $9.5 million for movie rights to "Annie" 1972 Event Mariner 9 takes pictures of Martian north pole 1967 Event ATS-3 launched by U.S. to take 1st pictures of full Earth disk 1965 Event "Mariner IV" sends back 1st pictures of Mars 1965 Event U.S. Ranger 9 launched; takes 5,814 pictures before lunar impact 1965 Event U.S. Ranger 8 launched, will transmit 7,137 lunar pictures 1964 Event U.S. Ranger 7 takes 4,316 pictures before crashing on Moon 1964 Event Ranger 7 launched toward the Moon; sent back 4308 TV pictures 1958 Death Harry Cohn, CEO (Columbia Pictures), dies of a heart attack 1957 Event Pope Pius XII encyclical On motion pictures, radio, TV 1943 Birthday Yoran Ben Ami, born in Israel, producer/president, Triumph Pictures 1941 Birthday David Puttnam, London, film producer/CEO, Columbia Pictures 1936 Event Pope Pius XI encyclical to U.S. bishops "On motion pictures" 1928 Event George Eastman shows 1st color motion pictures 1924 Event 1st newsreel pictures of presidential candidates were taken 1924 Event Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures and Louis B. Mayer merged to form MGM 1923 Birthday Oliver Millar, Surveyor, Queen's Pictures 1923 Event Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (New York City) 1922 Birthday Campbell Adamson, CEO, Abbey National Pictures 1913 Event Kansas legislature approved censorship of motion pictures 1911 Birthday Dana Suesse, songwriter, You Ought to be in Pictures 1909 Event Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, New York City 1906 Event 1st motion pictures shown in Hawaii 1896 Event Premier of motion pictures (Koster and Bial's Music Hall, New York City) 1894 Event 1st public showing of Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures) 1878 Event 1st attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras, each taking 1 picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground
