September 10 - The controversial TV movie Born Innocent , starring Linda Blair, was first screened on the NBC network in the United States. The film, which involved a fourteen-year-old being sent to a women's prison, drew heavy criticism due to an all-female rape scene, the first ever seen on American television.
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January 5January 5 is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 360 days remaining until the end of the year (361 in leap years). Events 1463 Poet Francois Villon is banned from Paris. 1477 Battle of Nancy, Charles the Bold killed, Burgundy beco - TiswasTiswas was an anarchic Saturday morning children's British TV show which ran from 1974 to 1983. It also had a fanatical following among students and parents. The name reputedly stood for one of: 'This Is Saturday, Wear A Smile', 'Today Is Saturday, Watch starts as a local programme in the Midlands in the UK and the television show was not fully networked until 1979Events January-February January 1 Sino-American relations: United States and the People's Republic of China establish diplomatic relations January 4 State of Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to families of dead and injured in Kent State University shootings. (1974- 1982Events January January 6 William Bonin is convicted of being the "freeway killer". January 8 AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions January 11 Mark Thatcher, son of the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, disappears in the Sahara du)
January 7 - How to Survive a Marriage debuts in a 90-minute special on NBC daytime. The episode shows the first nudity (which was merely simulated and not seen) on American daytime television.
