Film releases
- 1996 - The Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace, an American science fiction/horror film sequel to The Lawnmower Man
Television series
- 1966 - Batman, an American comedic superhero series, begins airing on ABC
- 1982 - Castrovalva, a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, finishes airing on BBC
Deaths
- 2000 - Marc Davis (b. 1913), a prominent American artist and animator for Walt Disney Studios, one of Disney's Nine Old Men, the famed core animators of Disney animated films