Lots of pre-tv stuff happening in Europe, more of it got to do with feats and inventions but the one key artistic moment I would mention is
'Le Voyage Dans La Lune'. It didn't achieve anything since tv hadn't even begun and the phase was mostly circus act and "experimental" but it gave the pioneers something to aim for, the screen was now something that explored scifi and worthy of broadcast and reception
BBC One around 1930s, international news, local etc wasn't until the 50s that a real news bulletin got finally broadcast
News that The Brown Bomber has beaten the Black Uhlan of the Rhine, Harlem goes into party mode for the next 24 hrs
Bombing of Pearl publicly announced, suddenly tv like the paper becomes a propaganda tool for rallying the people to help defend America
Hitler's dudes broadcast from Paris via Eiffel Tower
Japs Nuked, Team America wins, the war ends
That chick in 'I Love Lucy' gets preggers, in real life and on the screen
Sputnik BEEP BEEP BEEP the reds are looking down on us
JFK kicks Nixon's ass in a live nbc/cbs/abc debate, Tricky although had far greater experience looks flustered and shady as John F. Kennedy comes out the far superior debater and far superior Presidental candiate
Bewitched jumps the shark, same character different actor
Rednecks surrounding University of Mississippi disagree with the Kennedys' attempt to enroll James Meredith
JFK dead
Star Trek: The Original Series!!
TV broadcast of the Tokyo Olympics
Martin Luther King, Jr shot
Robert F. Kennedy shot
1968 Apollo goes around the Moon, reads some religious passage from the Bible to cheer up America and make sure the Moon isn't red
Followed soon by July 20th, 1969. One small step for man - one giant leap for mankind.
Jim McKay says that Muslim nutbags have kidnapped Israeli athletes in Munich
Vietnam keeps getting uglier and uglier, war ain't as glorious as it used to be back in the WW2 days, it all ends with the fall of Saigon
Who shot JR in Dallas
Lynda carter wonder woman, Adam west batman, the chessy battlestar galactica
The HOFF!
Crispin Glover on LSD almost kungfu kicks Dave in the face.
Irangate
and the Shuttle explodes with a teacher on board, school kids watch the fireball in shock, Ronnie Raygun makes some good speech about sacrifice and bravery bla bla
PanAm 103 Muslim crazies kill more innocent people by blowing up an aircraft over Lockerbie
Long runs of The Cosby Show Hill Street Blues etc
Flo-Jo wins 3, Roy Jones Jr. loses in controversy, Greg Louganis cracks his head diving
Home and Away the never ending Aussie soap opera
Gulf War One - Kuawait invaded, Gas prices sky rocket, watch Saddam get bombed in real time and almost in 3D
The HOFF is back in a tv show about lifeguards wearing skimpy outfits and guess who is guest staring
TNG, Babylon-5, DS9, Xfiles etc
Non-stop news, 24 hr news channels
Simpsons v Friends, Simpsons wins
Clinton had a blowjob, admits it
Gore lost, recounts going on for days and days. People throw things at the new president
More Big Brother, Survivor, Punk'd, Springer, and all kinds of reality tv bullshit
shocking how people can swallow such crap
Bush kowtows to China to save face after spy plane incident,
Muslim extremists go crazy again killing people 911
more wars live and almost in 3D
Michael Jackson is still wacko jacko dangles his out a window baby, the only amazing thing is the kid never went splat
Superbowl 2004, Conservatives go crazy after Timberlake performs next to Janet Jackson's nipple slip
Fox fall in love with 24, JJ ropes viewers in with Lost, more tv drama Desperate Housewives, American Idol, Sex and the City, America's got talent, America's Next Top Model bla bla
With the economy in the tank Bill O'Rielly finally admits Emperor Bush has no clothes
China puts on an Olympic show Phelps wins the most gold medals ever, Usain Bolt blows team America away
DUI celebs, Lost, Prison Break, Paris Hilton, Britney....all either wasted, causing accidents or exposing their coochie to the paparazzi of the world
Top-Gear the most illegally downloaded tv show on the net, a typical show ends with Clarkson saying something shocking....which in a way isn't really shocking anymore
Obama-mania
Everybody's finally mentioning the R word