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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 airs 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 |
| 04 | Sorrell Booke | U.S. actor (d. 1994) | |
| 06 | Vic Tayback | U.S. actor (d. 1990) | |
| February | 08 | Alejandro Rey | Argentinian-born actor (d. 1987) |
| 10 | Robert Wagner | U.S. actor | |
| 28 | Gavin MacLeod | U.S. actor | |
| March | 30 | John Astin | U.S. actor |
| April | 19 | Dick Sargent | U.S. actor (d. 1994) |
| 25 | Lynn Hamilton | U.S. actress | |
| 28 | Carolyn Jones | U.S. actress (d. 1983) | |
| May | 31 | Clint Eastwood | U.S. actor |
| June | 12 | Jim Nabors | U.S. actor |
| July | 14 | Polly Bergen | U.S. actress |
| 17 | Ray Galton | British writer | |
| August | 16 | Robert Culp | U.S. actor (d. 2010) |
| 16 | Frank Gifford | U.S. sports announcer | |
| 25 | Graham Jarvis | U.S. actor (d. 2003) | |
| 28 | Ben Gazzara | U.S. actor | |
| September | 11 | Cathryn Damon | U.S. actress (d. 1987) |
| 16 | Anne Francis | U.S. actress (d. 2011) | |
| November | 15 | Whitman Mayo | U.S. actor (d. 2001) |
| December | 4 | Ronnie Corbett | British comedian |
| 9 | Buck Henry | U.S. writer | |
| 21 | Phil Roman | U.S. animator |
References[]
- ↑ Elen, Richard G. "TV Technology 2. Television on the Air". Screenonline. http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/technology/technology2.html. Retrieved 2007-02-07.
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