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What happened in history on this day: January 1?
On January 1 in ...
- 1954 - Rose and Cotton Bowl are first televised sport colorcasts.
- 1959 - NBC airs the last The Ed Wynn Show TV show.
- 1971 - The NBC TV Network airs the last Bracken's World TV show in the USA.
- 1975 - The ABC TV network airs the last The Dick Cavett Show in the USA.
- 1976 - NBC Television replaces the 20-year old 'peacock' logo with a new abstract capital "N".
- 1993 - The launch of United Kingdom morning TV show GMTV.
- 1993 - TV show Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman premieres on CBS in the US.
Births on January 1
- 1861 - Birth of William Morris in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; actor (Brothers, The Roadhouse Murder).
- 1862 - Birth of Snitz Edwards in Hungary; actor (College, Phantom of the Opera).
- 1867 - Birth of Lew Fields in New York City, New York, USA; comedian/actor (of Weber and Fields, 23-Skidoo).
- 1873 - Birth of Willis Robards in Texas, USA; actor/director (Mothers of Men, Every Woman's Problem).
- 1879 - Birth of Edward Dillon in New York City, New York, USA; actor/director (Young Ironsides, The Golden West).
- 1879 - Birth of Paul Porcasi in Palermo, Sicily, Italy; actor (Say It Again, I'll Remember April).
- 1879 - Birth of William Fox in Tulchva, Hungary; US film pioneer (Nickelodeon).
- 1880 - Birth of Edie Martin in London, England; actress (Titfield Thunderbolt).
- 1881 - Birth of Richard Kean in England; actor (Story of Will Rogers, Ten Commandments).
- 1885 - Birth of Lawrence Alfred Bowes in Newark, California, USA; actor (Big Town Ideas).
- 1885 - Birth of Winifred Greenwood in Geneseo, New York, USA; actress (Don't Call Me Little Girl, Love Never Dies).
- 1886 - Birth of Willard Robertson in Runnels, Texas, USA; actor (Deep Valley, Fury at Furnace Creek).
- 1886 - Birth of William Edmunds in Italy; actor (Lost Moment, Big Sombrero).
- 1888 - Birth of Chesley Bonestell in San Francisco, California, USA; special effects/actor/writer (Swiss Family Robinson, War of the Worlds).
- 1888 - Birth of Joseph Marievsky in Russia; actor (Three Godfathers).
- 1888 - Birth of Ludwig Rex in Berlin, Germany; actor (Der Mensch am Wege).
- 1889 - Birth of Tom Dugan in Dublin, Ireland; actor (Circus Clown, Drag, Skyway).
- 1890 - Birth of Florence Lawrence in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; silent screen actress (Confidence).
- 1890 - Birth of Lawford Davidson in London, England; actor (Love Doctor, Vagabond King).
- 1890 - Birth of Wanda Capodaglio in Asti, Italy; actress (La Donna Nuda, Gelosia).
- 1891 - Birth of Charles Bickford in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; character actor for 25 years in Hollywood films before the TV era (Playhouse 90, Ford TV Theater, John - The Virginian, Wagon Train, The Dick Powell Show, Days of Wine and Roses).
- 1891 - Birth of Frank Pettingell in Liverpool, England; actor (Gaslight, Goose Steps Out).
- 1892 - Birth of Lillian Lorraine in San Francisco, California, USA; actress (Lonesome Corners, Should a Wife Forgive?).
- 1893 - Birth of Frank Badgley in Ottawa, Canada; actor (Man From Glengarry).
- 1893 - Birth of Jay Rescher in Bayonne, New Jersey, USA; cinematographer (Girl of the Sea, Straight To Heaven).
- 1894 - Birth of Iván Petrovich in Novi Sad, Serbia; actor (Magician, Garden of Allah).
- 1895 - Birth of Alice Tissot in Paris, France; actress (Tambour battant, Jamais deux sans trois).
- 1896 - Birth of Teinosuke Kinugasain Mie Ken, Japan; writer/director (Jujiro, Jigoku-mon).
- 1897 - Birth of Al Martin; screenwriter (Blondie Knows Best).
- 1897 - Birth of Walter Greaza in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA; actor (Martin Kane Private Eye, Edge of Night).
- 1900 - Birth of Erwin S. Gelsey New York City, New York, USA; screenwriter (Cover Girl, Touchdown Army).
- 1900 - Birth of Lillian Rich in Herne Hill, London, England; actress (One Wonderful Night, Never Say Die).
- 1900 - Birth of Paola Borboni in Parma, Italy; actress (La Cage aux folles II, Cicciabomba).
- 1900 - Birth of William Haines in Staunton, Virginia, USA; actor (Fast Life, Little Annie Rooney).
- 1902 - Birth of Aldo Graziati in Scorze, Italy; cinematographer (Othello, Indiscretion, The Wayward Wife).
- 1906 - Birth of Louis W. Parker; inventor of the intercarrier sound system for television sets, the modern basis for coordinating sound and picture.
- 1909 - Birth of Dana Andrews in Collins, Mississippi, USA; American actor (Battle of the Bulge, Laura, The Best Years of Our Lives, I was a Communist for the FBI) (dies 1992).
- 1910 - Birth of Russ Bender; actor/writer (Amazing Colossal Man, Space Monster).
- 1916 - Birth of Earl Wrightson in Baltimore, Maryland, USA; American singer/actor (The At Home Show, Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue) (dies 1993).
- 1919 - Birth of Carole Landis in Fairchild, Wisconsin, USA; actress (One Million BC, Topper Returns).
- 1925 - Birth of Valentina Cortesa in Milan, Italy; actress (Kidnap Syndicate).
- 1927 - Birth of Barbara Baxley in Stockton, California, USA; actress (Norma Rae, Countdown).
- 1928 - Birth of Ernest R Tidyman in Ohio, USA; novelist/screenwriter (The French Connection).
- 1930 - Birth of Ty Hardin; actor (Bronco, Riptide).
- 1933 - Birth of Joe Orton in England; actor/dramatist (Prick Up Your Ears).
- 1938 - Birth of Frank Langella; actor (Kitchen Confidential, Unscripted, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Dracula, Diary of a Mad Housewife, Twelve Chairs).
- 1943 - Birth of Don Novello [Father Guido Sarducci] in Ashtabula, Ohio, USA; comedian (Saturday Night Live).
- 1946 - Birth of Rick Hurst in Houston, Texas, USA; actor (The Dukes of Hazzard).
- 1958 - Birth of Ren Woods in Portland, Oregon, USA; actress (Fanta - Roots, Beauty and the Beast, We've Got Each Other).
- 1960 - Birth of Michael David Morrison; actor (Caleb Snyder - As the World Turns).
- 1964 - Birth of Dedee Pfeiffer; actress (Cybill).
- 1966 - Birth of Rawley Valberde in Oceanside, California, USA; actor (Amado - Santa Barbara).
- 1969 - Birth of Morris Chestnut; actor (Boyz N the Hood, Ernest Green Story, Out All Night, C-16:FBI).
- 1969 - Birth of Verne Troyer; actor (Jack of All Trades, Boston Public).
- 1980 - Birth of Christopher Redman in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; actor (CSI: Miami, Saved).
Deaths on January 1
- 1960 - Margaret Sullavan, actress (Back Street), dies of overdose at age 48.
- 1964 - Rika Hopper, Dutch actress (Comedia, Anastasia), dies at about age 86.
- 1965 - Gertrude Michael, actress (Caged, Cleopatra), dies at age 53.
- 1969 - Death of Barton Maclane of cancer; actor (Outlaws, Perry Mason, Laramie, Disneyland, General Peterson - I Dream of Jeannie).
- 1972 - Jane Morgan, actress (Mrs Margaret Davis - Our Miss Brooks), dies at age 91.
- 1972 - Death of Maurice A Chevalier at age 83; French singer, actor (Can Can, Gigi), dies at age 83.
- 1975 - Arthur Pierson, actor/director (Hat Check Girl), dies at age 73.
- 1982 - Death of Victor Buono at age 43 of a heart attack; actor (Batman TV show, Wild Wild West TV show, Mr Schubert - Man from Atlantis).
- 1987 - Gustav Knuth, actor (Heidi, Rats), dies at age 85.
- 1992 - Ginette Leclerc, actress (Baker's Wife), dies at age 79.
- 1992 - Mike Frankovich, US producer (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), dies.
- 1993 - June Clayworth, actress (Bodyguard, Criminal Court), dies of lymphoma.
- 1993 - Phyllis Hill, actress (Singing in the Dark), dies of lung cancer at age 72.
- 1994 - Cesar Romero, Cuban-American actor (Joker - Batman, Falcon Crest), dies at age 86 from bronchitis and pneumonia (born 1907).
- 1997 - Joan Rice, actress (Payroll, Steel Key, Curtain Up), dies at age 66.
- 2001 - Death of Ray Walston in his sleep at age 86, American actor (Damn Yankees (Tony award), My Favorite Martian, Picket Fences) (born 1914).
- 2007 - Death of Del Reeves AKA Franklin Delano Reeves at age 72; country singer and songwriter ("Girl on the Billboard" (1965), Del Reeves Country Carnival TV show).
- 2016 - Death of Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-American cinematographer.
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