1930 in television
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The year 1930 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in 1930.
Global television events
- May 22 – An audience at Proctor's Theatre in Schenectady, New York becomes the first to see a closed-circuit television signal projected onto a big screen.
- July 14 – For the first time in the United Kingdom, a television drama is broadcast. The drama is a production of Luigi Pirandello's The Man With the Flower in His Mouth; it is broadcast by the BBC from Baird's studios at 133 Long Acre, London.[1]
- November 5 – Baird television transmissions at Hairdressing Fair of Fashion include the world's first television commercial for the Eugène Method of permanent hair waving.
- December 7 – W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts broadcasts the first television commercial in the United States, of I.J Fox Furriers during The Fox Trappers.
Births
Month | Day | Name | Occupation/Accolades |
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January | 03 | Robert Loggia | U.S. actor (died 2015) |
04 | Sorrell Booke | U.S. actor (died 1994) | |
06 | Vic Tayback | U.S. actor (died 1990) | |
February | 08 | Alejandro Rey | Argentinian-born actor (died 1987) |
28 | Gavin MacLeod | U.S. actor | |
March | 30 | John Astin | U.S. actor |
April | 07 | Andrew Sachs | German-born British actor (died 2016) |
19 | Dick Sargent | U.S. actor (died 1994) | |
25 | Lynn Hamilton | U.S. actress | |
28 | Carolyn Jones | U.S. actress (died 1983) | |
May | 10 | Pat Summerall | American football player and sportscaster (d. 2013) |
31 | Clint Eastwood | U.S. actor | |
June | 12 | Jim Nabors | Actor, singer |
July | 14 | Polly Bergen | U.S. actress (died 2014) |
17 | Ray Galton | British writer | |
August | 16 | Frank Gifford | U.S. sports announcer (died 2015) |
Robert Culp | U.S. actor (died 2010) | ||
25 | Graham Jarvis | U.S. actor (died 2003) | |
28 | Ben Gazzara | U.S. actor (died 2012) | |
September | 11 | Cathryn Damon | U.S. actress (died 1987) |
16 | Anne Francis | U.S. actress (died 2011) | |
November | 15 | Whitman Mayo | U.S. actor (died 2001) |
December | 4 | Ronnie Corbett | British comedian (died 2016) |
9 | Buck Henry | U.S. writer | |
21 | Phil Roman | U.S. animator | |
References
- ↑ Elen, Richard G. "TV Technology 2. Television on the Air". Screenonline. Retrieved 2007-02-07.
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