1928

“Steamboat Willie,” the first cartoon with synchronized sound as well as the first release of the character Mickey Mouse, debuted on screen at the Colony Theater in New York.

2003

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the state constitution guaranteed gay couples the right to marry, the first state Supreme Court to do so.

2005

A civil jury decided actor Robert Blake was behind the killing of Bonny Lee Bakley and ordered him to pay $30 million to his family.