1928: The first animated cartoon with synchronized sound premiered in New York City. Although Mickey Mouse's "Steamboat Willie" had been produced as a silent, Walt Disney and company rushed in and retooled it with noises to become the first rodent talkie on the screen.
By will_barrow at 10:22 on 18/11/09
ReportOn this day in 1477 William Caxton produces The Sayings of the Philosophers, the first book printed on a printing press in England: tinyurl.com/4rmmxq