Elvis Presley became the first solo entertainer to broadcast a live performance via satellite with Aloha From Hawaii.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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A Charlie Brown Christmas went on to win both a Peabody Award and the Emmy Award for Outstanding Children’s Program.
An Unearthly Child was the first of a four-part serial that saw actor William Hartnell take the role of the time-travelling Doctor Who.
Prior to the launch from Alexandra Palace in London, television had been in experimental stages. The BBC’s launch of regular programming set a new standard for the medium and was a key part of the BBC’s broader mission to bring new forms of entertainment and information to the public.
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.
Elvis Presley appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, the USA’s most popular television show, for the first time.
Originally broadcast from a studio in New Jersey, MTV launched at 12:01am with the words ‘Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll’.
An overwhelmingly positive reaction in season one meant that Simpsons shorts were featured in every episode of the next two seasons before being spun off into a standalone half-hour series in 1989.
The game of American football was the first to be decided in sudden-death overtime.
13 million people tuned in, securing it the second-highest audience share, but the film garnered an almost universally-negative response.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites
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12th October 539 BCE: Babylon falls to the Persian king Cyrus the Great
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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