January
26, 1926
John
Logie Baird gave the world's first
demonstration of true television before 50 scientists in an attic room in
central London.
In 1927, his television was demonstrated over
438 miles of telephone line between London and Glasgow, and he formed the Baird
Television Development Company. (BTDC). In 1928, the BTDC achieved the first
transatlantic television transmission between London and New York and the first
transmission to a ship in mid-Atlantic. He also gave the first demonstration of
both colour and stereoscopic television.
January 27, 1976
The Happy Days spin-off Laverne and Shirley, featuring two
Milwaukee women who work on a brewery assembly line preimers.
The show starred Penny Marshall, sister of producer
Garry Marshall, and Cindy Williams. Fierce rivalry erupted between the two
stars, and Williams left the show in 1982. The show lasted only one more season
before its cancellation in 1983.January 28, 1936
Alan
Alda is born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo.
A six-time Emmy Award and Golden
Globe Award winner, he is best known
for his roles as Hawkeye Pierce in the TV series M*A*S*H and Arnold Vinick in The West Wing. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the State
University of New York at Stony Brook
School of Journalism and a member of the advisory board of The Center for Communicating Science.January 28, 1956
Young country-rock singer Elvis Presley makes his
first-ever television appearance on the TV musical-variety program Stage
Show.
Presley
sang "Heartbreak Hotel," which quickly became a hit single. In total,
Elvis appeared on six shows. The program was hosted by swing band leaders Tommy
and Jimmy Dorsey. Elvis went on to appear on Ed Sullivan's immensely popular
variety show, Toast of the Town, in the fall of 1956. The appearance
made Elvis a household name.
January 28, 1986
Challenger explodes
The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred
on January 28, 1986, when the NASA Space Shuttle
orbiterChallenger (OV-099) (mission STS-51-L)
broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, leading to the deaths of its seven crew
members, which included five NASA astronauts and
two Payload Specialists. The spacecraft disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean,
off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, at
11:39 EST (16:39 UTC). Disintegration of the vehicle began after an O-ring seal
in its right solid
rocket booster (SRB) failed at
liftoff. The O-ring failure caused a breach in the SRB joint it sealed,
allowing pressurized burning gas from within the solid rocket motor to reach
the outside and impinge upon the adjacent SRB aft field joint attachment
hardware and external
fuel tank. This led to the separation
of the right-hand SRB's aft field joint attachment and the structural failure of the external tank.Aerodynamic forces
broke up the orbiter.
January 28, 1996
Jerry Seigel, creator of Superman, dies at age 81.
Writer Seigel created Superman with artist friend Joe
Shuster when they were both teenagers in the 1930s. All the major newspaper
syndicates rejected the character, who was born on the doomed planet Krypton
and bundled off by his parents in a space capsule to Smallville USA, where he's
raised by kindly earthlings. In 1938, however, Seigel and Shuster finally
landed a comic book deal, and Superman's adventures as mild-mannered reporter
Clark Kent moonlighting as the Man of Steel became an instant hit. The comic
book spawned a newspaper strip that ran for 28 years, as well as a radio series
that ran from 1940 to 1951.The character, along
with his friends cub reporter Jimmy Olson and ace newswoman Lois Lane, who
never seem to penetrate Superman's Clark Kent disguise, appeared in movie
serials from 1948 to 1950, and in a feature film in 1951. A popular Superman TV
series ran from 1951 to 1957. Filmed on a shoestring budget, the show's special
effects were limited to Superman crashing through walls, flying around, and
witnessing fiery explosions. The same flying sequences were used repeatedly.
Actor George Reeves was so well-known as Superman that he couldn't find other
work when the series ended.
The
Man of Steel reappeared on the big screen in 1978, with Christopher Reeves in
the role. The hit film launched three follow-ups. In 1993, Superman appeared
again in the TV comedy Lois and Clark.
January
26, 1926
John Logie Baird gave the world's first demonstration of true television before 50 scientists in an attic room in central London.
In 1927, his television was demonstrated over
438 miles of telephone line between London and Glasgow, and he formed the Baird
Television Development Company. (BTDC). In 1928, the BTDC achieved the first
transatlantic television transmission between London and New York and the first
transmission to a ship in mid-Atlantic. He also gave the first demonstration of
both colour and stereoscopic television.
January 27, 1976
The Happy Days spin-off Laverne and Shirley, featuring two Milwaukee women who work on a brewery assembly line preimers.
The show starred Penny Marshall, sister of producer Garry Marshall, and Cindy Williams. Fierce rivalry erupted between the two stars, and Williams left the show in 1982. The show lasted only one more season before its cancellation in 1983.January 28, 1936
Alan Alda is born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo.
A six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, he is best known for his roles as Hawkeye Pierce in the TV series M*A*S*H and Arnold Vinick in The West Wing. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Journalism and a member of the advisory board of The Center for Communicating Science.
January 28, 1956
Young country-rock singer Elvis Presley makes his first-ever television appearance on the TV musical-variety program Stage Show.
Presley sang "Heartbreak Hotel," which quickly became a hit single. In total, Elvis appeared on six shows. The program was hosted by swing band leaders Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. Elvis went on to appear on Ed Sullivan's immensely popular variety show, Toast of the Town, in the fall of 1956. The appearance made Elvis a household name.January 28, 1986
Challenger explodes
The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred
on January 28, 1986, when the NASA Space Shuttle
orbiterChallenger (OV-099) (mission STS-51-L)
broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, leading to the deaths of its seven crew
members, which included five NASA astronauts and
two Payload Specialists. The spacecraft disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean,
off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, at
11:39 EST (16:39 UTC). Disintegration of the vehicle began after an O-ring seal
in its right solid
rocket booster (SRB) failed at
liftoff. The O-ring failure caused a breach in the SRB joint it sealed,
allowing pressurized burning gas from within the solid rocket motor to reach
the outside and impinge upon the adjacent SRB aft field joint attachment
hardware and external
fuel tank. This led to the separation
of the right-hand SRB's aft field joint attachment and the structural failure of the external tank.Aerodynamic forces
broke up the orbiter.
January 28, 1996
Jerry Seigel, creator of Superman, dies at age 81.
Writer Seigel created Superman with artist friend Joe Shuster when they were both teenagers in the 1930s. All the major newspaper syndicates rejected the character, who was born on the doomed planet Krypton and bundled off by his parents in a space capsule to Smallville USA, where he's raised by kindly earthlings. In 1938, however, Seigel and Shuster finally landed a comic book deal, and Superman's adventures as mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent moonlighting as the Man of Steel became an instant hit. The comic book spawned a newspaper strip that ran for 28 years, as well as a radio series that ran from 1940 to 1951.The character, along
with his friends cub reporter Jimmy Olson and ace newswoman Lois Lane, who
never seem to penetrate Superman's Clark Kent disguise, appeared in movie
serials from 1948 to 1950, and in a feature film in 1951. A popular Superman TV
series ran from 1951 to 1957. Filmed on a shoestring budget, the show's special
effects were limited to Superman crashing through walls, flying around, and
witnessing fiery explosions. The same flying sequences were used repeatedly.
Actor George Reeves was so well-known as Superman that he couldn't find other
work when the series ended.
The Man of Steel reappeared on the big screen in 1978, with Christopher Reeves in the role. The hit film launched three follow-ups. In 1993, Superman appeared again in the TV comedy Lois and Clark.
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Tony Figueroa
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