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Date
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Event
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| January, 1 |
1953 The first TV detector van, used to track down users of unlicensed television sets, begins operation in the UK |
| January, 2 |
1955 1st "Bob Cummings Show" premieres on NBC (later on CBS) |
| January, 3 |
1939 MLB catcher Roy Campanella (18) weds Bernice Ray |
| January, 4 |
1997 Czech Republic's first president Vaclav Havel (60) weds Czech actress Dagmar Havlova (43) in Prague, Czech Republic |
| January, 5 |
1911 British PM Neville Chamberlain (41) weds Anne de Vere Cole |
| January, 6 |
1975 "Wheel Of Fortune" debuts on NBC-TV |
| January, 7 |
1879 Dutch King William II marries Emma von Waldeck-Pyrmont |
| January, 8 |
1951 American actor Burgess Meredith (43) weds Swedish-American ballerina Kaja Sundsten |
| January, 9 |
1959 "Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood premieres on CBS TV |
| January, 10 |
1898 Painter Henri Matisse (28) weds Amlie Noellie Parayre |
| January, 11 |
1924 German-Swiss poet and novelist Hermann Hesse (36) weds Swiss soprano and painter Ruth Wenger (26); divorce in 1927 |
| January, 12 |
1966 "Batman", starring Adam West as Batman, Burt Ward as Robin, and Cesar Romero as The Joker, debuts on ABC |
| January, 13 |
1928 RCA and GE install three test television sets in homes in Schenectady, New York allowing American inventor E.F.W. Alexanderson to demonstrate the first home television receiver which delivered a poor and unsteady 1.5 square inch picture |
| January, 14 |
1930 American author John Steinbeck (27) weds Carol Henning (23) in Los Angeles, California (divorced 1942) |
| January, 15 |
1955 Film director Stanley Kubrick (26) weds theatrical designer Ruth Sobotka (29) |
| January, 16 |
1936 Screen Actors Guild incorporates with King Vidor as president |
| January, 17 |
1926 Comedian George Burns marries comedienne Gracie Allen |
| January, 18 |
1949 South African Rev Andries Treurnicht marries Engela Dreyer |
| January, 19 |
1957 Golfer Gary Player (21) weds Bobby Verwey's sister Vivienne Verwey |
| January, 20 |
1968 Actress Sharon Tate (24) weds actor and director Roman Polanski (34) in Chelsea, London |
| January, 21 |
1975 Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor (57) weds toy inventor Jack Ryan (48) (div. 1976) |
| January, 22 |
1987 Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself at a press conference on live national television, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism |
| January, 23 |
1977 Mini-series "Roots" premieres on ABC |
| January, 24 |
1940 "The Grapes of Wrath", directed by John Ford and based on John Steinbeck's novel of the same name, starring Henry Fonda and Jane Darwell, is released |
| January, 25 |
1961 1st live, nationally televised presidential news conference with JFK |
| January, 26 |
1926 John Logie Baird gives the first public demonstration of television in his laboratory in London |
| January, 27 |
1996 "ER" TV actress Yvette Freeman (39) weds musical director Lawny Hartley (49) in Dunleith, Delaware |
| January, 28 |
1925 Actress Gloria Swanson (25) weds aristocrat Henri de la Falaise (26) in Paris, France |
| January, 29 |
1923 President of Turkey Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (41) weds Latife Hanim; divorce in 1925 |
| January, 30 |
1931 "City Lights", American silent romantic comedy film directed by Charlie Chaplin, starring himself and Virginia Cherrill, premieres at Los Angeles Theater |
| January, 31 |
1960 Songwriter Adolph Green marries actress and singer Phyllis Newman in NYC |