* 1939 – The Wizard of Oz premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California.

* 1961 – Oz Fox, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ( Stryper, SinDizzy, and Bloodgood )

Lyman Frank Baum ( May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919 ) was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

* August 15 – MGM's classic musical film The Wizard of Oz, based on L. Frank Baum's famous novel, and starring Judy Garland as Dorothy, premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.

* May 8 – CBS telecasts The Wizard of Oz for the last time.

* January 10 – Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, and dancer ( The Wizard of Oz )( d. 1987 )

* March 14 – After eight years on NBC, The Wizard of Oz returns to CBS, where it will remain for the next twenty-two years, setting what was likely then a record for the most telecasts of a Hollywood film on a commercial television network.

* December 13 – Three years after its first telecast, MGM's The Wizard of Oz is shown on television for only the second time, but it gains an even larger viewing audience than its first television outing, spurring CBS to make it an annual tradition.

* December 11 – MGM's The Wizard of Oz is rerun on CBS only a year after its previous telecast, thus beginning the tradition of annual telecasts of the film.

* May 6 – L. Frank Baum, American author, poet, playwright, actor and independent filmmaker ( The Wizard of Oz ) ( b. 1856 )

* November 3 – MGM's film The Wizard of Oz makes its TV debut on the CBS network.

* May 15 – L. Frank Baum, American author, poet, playwright, actor and independent filmmaker ( The Wizard of Oz ) ( d. 1919 )

The actors were not told the end result of the Willow – Oz – Tara storyline, not sure what the eventual trajectory of the relationship would be, until Hannigan said, " Then finally it was, ' Great!

" The ' Wizard of Oz ' as a Monetary Allegory ," Journal of Political Economy 98 ( 1990 ): 739 – 60 online at JSTOR

* Oz ( magazine ), an Australia / UK satire magazine published 1963 – 73

* Oz Almog ( born 1956 ), an Israeli – Austrian artist

* Oz ( 1997 – 2003 )

* Ray Bolger ( 1904 – 1987 ), Actor ( The Wizard of Oz )

* Java ( November 27, 1966 ) – Two tube-like Muppets ( which were designed by Frank Oz ) dance to the Al Hirt song " Java.

* Santa Claus Routine with Arthur Godfrey ( December 24, 1967 ) – Arthur Godfrey plays Santa Claus and gets a visit from a group of monsters consisting of Thudge ( performed by Jim Henson ), Gleep ( a protoype of Grover performed by Frank Oz ), Scudge ( performed by Jerry Juhl ), Snerk, and Snork ( performed by Frank Oz ).

* Octopus's Garden ( March 1, 1970 ) – An octopus ( performed by Frank Oz ) constantly interrupts the singing of " Octopus ' Garden " by a diver ( performed by Jim Henson ) by giving out a bunch of bad puns until he receives comeuppance from a giant clam ( performed by Jerry Nelson ).

* The Wild String Quartet ( January 17, 1971 ) – Mahna Mahna ( performed by Jim Henson ) fills in for a violinist named Beagleman but ends up playing the drums instead much to the dismay of Twill ( performed by Jerry Nelson ), Harrison ( performed by Richard Hunt ), and Grump ( performed by Frank Oz ).

Since 1999, Oz has been continually developed by an international group, the Mozart Consortium, which originally consisted of Saarland University, the Swedish Institute of Computer Science, and the Université catholique de Louvain.

In 2005 he was awarded the prestigious international Ovidius Prize ( also known as the Ovid Prize ), previous winners of which include Mario Vargas Llosa, Amos Oz, and Orhan Pamuk.

Port Melbourne is currently the home of Circus Oz, Australia's world-famous contemporary circus, which has its international headquarters on the corner of Bay Street and Rouse Street.

Circus Oz has performed in, among many other international tours, New York City, London and Jerusalem as part of its international touring.

Other examples include MGM's The Wizard of Oz and Walt Disney's Pinocchio, Fantasia and Bambi, all of which flopped merely due to the fact they were released during World War II which cut off 60 % of Hollywood's international release market.

This period in London and his work with Oz brought him international renown.

It also hosts international circuses and shows, such as Disney on Ice & Hugh Jackman's The Boy from Oz.

The Mozart Programming System is a multiplatform implementation of the Oz programming language, developed by an international group, the Mozart Consortium, which originally consisted of Saarland University, the Swedish Institute of Computer Science, and the Université Catholique de Louvain.

They had two sons: actor-musician Oz Perkins ( born February 2, 1974 ) and folk / rock recording artist Elvis Perkins ( born February 9, 1976 ).

A notable recording of a popular song, such as Judy Garland singing Over the Rainbow ( from The Wizard of Oz ), Mary Martin singing Never Never Land ( from Peter Pan ), Allan Jones singing The Donkey Serenade ( from The Firefly ), or Danny Kaye singing Inchworm ( from Hans Christian Andersen ) would be heard while the cutouts played on the screen, animated by a concealed puppeteer.

The recording features the customary introduction to a Rainbow show – the classic quote from The Wizard of Oz, " Toto: I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

Oz later blamed Midler who was amid recording her next album and rehearsing for her tour, for being under a lot of stress by other projects and making " the mistake of bringing her stress on the set ".

In March 1940, that same recording was included on a Decca 78-RPM four-record studio cast album entitled The Wizard of Oz.

Around 1996, the band's definitive line-up began to emerge ; that same year, they began recording the rock opera CD, Jesús de Chamberí, which was produced by Alberto Plaza and Mägo de Oz.

Through two recording sessions, and the ousting of Charlie and Chema's reentry into the band, the band launched their debut in 1994, produced by Txus and Alberto Plaza under the name, Mago de Oz.

* Oz Almog ( 1956 –), Israeli-Austrian artist & author

Published on June 20, 1916, with full-color and black-and-white illustrations by artist John R. Neill, it is significant that no one from Oz appears in the book until its climax ; this is due to Baum having originally written most of the book as an original fantasy novel over ten years earlier, in 1905.

In 1944, artist Evelyn Copelman became the next illustrator, when she illustrated the 1944 Bobbs-Merrill edition of The Wizard of Oz.

McGraw also contributed to the Oz series started by L. Frank Baum ; working with her daughter, graphic artist and librarian Lauren Lynn McGraw ( Wagner ), she wrote Merry Go Round in Oz ( the last of the Oz books issued by Baum's publisher ) and The Forbidden Fountain of Oz.

* Journey Back to Oz ( 1974, layout artist )

Eric James Shanower ( born October 23, 1963 ) is an American comics artist and writer, best known for his Oz novels and comics and the on-going retelling of the Trojan War as Age of Bronze.

He is currently writing adaptations of L. Frank Baum's original Oz novels for Marvel Comics, illustrated by artist Skottie Young.

* Anna-Maria Cool, artist on Barbie, Elvira, Toto of Oz, former Hallmark Cards artist

Michael G. Ploog, who was a conceptual artist of Return to Oz, wrote and illustrated a graphic novel based on The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus in which the Gnome King looked like the Nome King's likeness in the film, but whose function was greatly expanded from the novel to be the ruler of all the Immortals.

In the early 1980s, Carlton ’ s Pram Factory was sold, and its prolific artist collectives dispersed ( with Multicultural Arts Victoria emerging soon afterwards, but only Circus Oz remaining in similar form today ).

* Dick Martin ( artist ) ( 1927 – 1990 ), American illustrator, particularly associated with the Land of Oz

* The visual look of the motion picture The Dark Crystal, by Jim Henson and Frank Oz, was developed by primary concept artist and chief creature designer, Brian Froud, who in turn was inspired by the art of John Bauer.

Thompson's novel is notable in that she avoids the use of Baum's classic characters and relies on those of her own invention ( as is true of some of her other later books, like Captain Salt in Oz ); and also for the fact that author and artist portray the followers of Jinnicky as turbanned black Africans.

Dickinson P. Martin ( June 29, 1927 – February 14, 1990 ) was an artist from Chicago who illustrated a number of books related to The Oz books series, most notably, Merry Go Round in Oz ( 1963 ), the 40th and final title in the regular series, as well as many other children's books.