It happened on… August 15

For the first time in the history of cinema, five films from the same studio each grossed over one billion at the box office in the same year. These Disney films are “Toy Story 4,” “Avengers: Endgame,” “Captain Marvel,” “Aladdin,” and “The Lion King.”

The song “Macarena” is released by Los del Río.

750,000 people attend Paul Simon’s free concert in Central Park, New York.

The film “Apocalypse Now,” directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, and Martin Sheen, is released. It goes on to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1979.

Premiere of the film “The Wizard of Oz” in Hollywood. The film brought Judy Garland fame with the song “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”