Saturday Night Live was originally known as NBC’s Saturday Night to avoid any confusion with the ABC show Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell.
12th July 1561: The consecration of Saint Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow
12th July 2019
Elvis Presley appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, the USA’s most popular television show, for the first time.
On the 24th May 1956, the first Eurovision Song Contest took place in Lugano, Switzerland.
On the 19th February 1985, the BBC’s flagship soap opera EastEnders was broadcast for the first time.
Elvis Presley became the first solo entertainer to broadcast a live performance via satellite with Aloha From Hawaii.
On the 10th November 1969, the American children’s television show Sesame Street was broadcast for the first time.
The first United States presidential debate took place between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.
On the 23rd September 1974, the world’s first teletext service went live when the BBC began transmitting its Ceefax service.
Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr was the director of research at DuMont Laboratories in New Jersey where he was exploring the use of cathode ray tubes in television sets.
On the 9th December 1965, American television network CBS first broadcast the animated cartoon A Charlie Brown Christmas.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018