November 21
World Television Day
World Television Day celebrates the daily value of television as a symbol of communication and globalization. Television is one of the single greatest technological advances of the 20th century, serving to educate, inform, entertain and influence our decisions and opinions. It is estimated that approximately 90% of homes around the world have televisions, however, with the introduction of internet broadcasting, the number is declining in favor of computers.
World Television Day was proclaimed by the United
Nations in 1996. It is celebrated annually on November 21.
November 21, 1937
Margaret Julia ”World Television Day is born.
Actress,
producer, and social activist known for her starring role on the TV
series That Girl (1966–1971) and her award-winning feminist children’s
franchise, Free
to Be… You and Me. For her work
in television, she has received four Emmys, a Golden Globe, the George Foster
Peabody Award and has been inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of
Fame. She also received a Grammy award for her children’s album Thanks
& Giving All Year Long.
November 21, 1972
Maude's Dilemma Part two.
Two CBS affiliates canceled the episodes and 32 CBS affiliates were
pressured not to rerun the segments in the summer of 1973 by anti-abortion
factions.
The second airing of the program gave the show a 41 percent share with 65
million people tuning in. The first time the show aired CBS received 7,000
letters; the second time around 17,000 letters of protest poured in.
This program appeared at a time when the Supreme Court had not yet protected legalized abortion (The Roe vs. Wade decision was still one year away). Reportedly, Pro-Life groups mailed Norman Lear photographs of aborted fetuses in protest.
November 22, 1932
Robert Francis Vaughn is born.
Actor noted for his stage, film and television work. His best-known TV roles include the suave spy Napoleon Solo in the 1960s series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and the wealthy detective Harry Rule in the 1970s series The Protectors. In film, he portrayed one of the title characters in The Magnificent Seven and Major Paul Krueger in The Bridge at Remagen, and provided the voice of Proteus IV, the computer villain of Demon Seed.
November 23, 2012
Larry
Hagman, star of "Dallas" and "I Dream of Jeannie," dies.
Larry Hagman dies at age 81 of complications from cancer at a hospital in Dallas. Hagman was best known for his role as the villainous Texas oil baron J.R. Ewing on “Dallas,” which aired from 1978 to 1991 and was revived in 2012.
Hagman was born on September 21, 1931, in Fort Worth,
Texas, to actress Mary Martin, who would become known for her roles in Broadway
musicals including “Peter Pan,” “South Pacific” and “The Sound of Music,” and
Benjamin Hagman, a lawyer. After graduating from high school in Weatherford,
Texas, the younger Hagman briefly attended Bard College before dropping out to
pursue acting. During the Korean War, he served in
the U.S. Air Force, producing and directing shows for American troops.
Following his military service, Hagman worked as a New York stage actor in
the late 1950s and early 1960s. He also appeared on various TV series, including a two-year stint on
the daytime soap opera “The Edge of Night.” Hagman made his movie debut in
1964’s “Ensign Pulver,” whose cast also included Jack Nicholson.
Hagman’s breakout role was on the hit sitcom “I Dream
of Jeannie,” which aired from 1965 to 1970. He played astronaut Tony Nelson,
who becomes “master” to a genie (played by Barbara Eden) whom he releases from
a bottle he finds on a desert island. Following “I Dream of Jeannie,” Hagman
appeared in several short-lived TV shows before the 1978 debut of “Dallas,” the
prime-time soap opera about a wealthy, feuding Texas family, the Ewings. J.R.
Ewing was originally intended to be a supporting character, but as portrayed by
Hagman, the gleefully conniving, cowboy-hatted oil tycoon became the star of
the show and someone audiences loved to hate.
In the cliffhanger finale of the show’s second full
season, broadcast on March 21, 1980, J.R. was gunned down by an unknown
assailant, and the question of who shot him soon became a pop culture
phenomenon. Hagman landed on multiple magazine covers, there were “I Shot
J.R.” T-shirts and bookmakers even took bets on the identity of the person who
pulled the trigger. The answer, finally revealed eight months later in an
episode that aired November 21, 1980, turned out to be J.R.’s scorned
ex-mistress, Kristin Shepard (played by Mary Crosby). The episode was seen by
an estimated 350 million viewers around the globe, and remains the
second-highest-rated television program in U.S. history, after the final
episode of “M*A*S*H” in 1983. J.R. survived the shooting, and Hagman went on to
appear in all 357 episodes of the original “Dallas.”
After “Dallas” ended in 1991, Hagman had roles in movies including “Nixon” (1995) and “Primary Colors” (1998) and made appearances on “Nip/Tuck,” “Desperate Housewives” and other television shows. In October 2011 the actor, who developed cirrhosis after years of heavy drinking and had a liver transplant in 1995, announced he had cancer but still would reprise his role as J.R. Ewing on the revival of “Dallas.” The rebooted “Dallas” premiered in June 2012, and Hagman died on November 23 of that same year. His death later was worked into the show, and in an episode that aired on March 4, 2013, the iconic J.R. was shot and killed by a then-unknown assailant.
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual parade presented by the U.S.-based department store chain Macy's.
The tradition started in 1924, tying it for the second-oldest Thanksgiving parade in the United States with America's Thanksgiving Parade in Detroit (with both parades being four years younger than the 6abc Dunkin' Donuts Thanksgiving Day Parade in Philadelphia). The three-hour Macy's event is held in New York City starting at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on Thanksgiving Day, and has been televised nationally on NBC since 1952.The parade was suspended from 1942 to 1944 as a result of World War II, owing to the need for rubber and helium in the war effort. The parade resumed in 1945 using the route that it followed until 2008. The parade became known nationwide after being prominently featured in the 1947 film, Miracle on 34th Street, which included footage of the 1946 festivities. The event was first broadcast on network television in 1948 (see below). By this point the event, and Macy's sponsorship of it, were sufficiently well-known to give rise to the colloquialism "Macy's Day Parade". Since 1984, the balloons have been made by Raven Aerostar (a division of Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based Raven Industries).
November 25, 1947
John Bernard Larroquette III is born.
His roles include Dan Fielding on the 1984–1992 sitcom Night Court (winning a then-unprecedented four consecutive Emmy Awards for his role), Mike McBride in the Hallmark Channel series McBride, John Hemingway on The John Larroquette Show, Lionel Tribbey on The West Wing and Carl Sack in Boston Legal.
November 26, 1922
Cartoonist Charles M. Schulz is born in St. Paul, Minnesota.
The son of a barber, Schulz showed an early interest in art and took a correspondence course in cartooning. After serving in the army in World War II, Schulz returned to St. Paul and took a job lettering comics for a small magazine. In 1947, Schulz began drawing a comic strip for the St. Paul Pioneer Press called "L'il Folks," featuring Charlie Brown and his gang of friends. In 1950, after several rejections, Schulz sold syndication rights to United Features, which renamed the strip "Peanuts." Schulz drew the comic himself, without assistants, until his retirement in 1999. Peanuts ran in some 2,600 papers, in 75 countries and 21 languages, earning Schulz some $30 million a year. Schulz died in 2000.
The Hollywood Christmas Parade (formerly the Hollywood Santa Parade or Santa Claus Lane Parade) is an annual parade that takes place on the Sunday after Thanksgiving in the Hollywood community in Los Angeles, California, United States.
The Parade was suspended from 1942 to 1944 due to World War II, but reopened in 1945 with record attendance.
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Tony Figueroa
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