1930 in television
The year 1930 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in 1930.
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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 broadcasts the first television commercial in the United States, of I.J Fox Furriers during The Fox Trappers.
Births
| Date | Name | Notability |
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| January 1 | Ty Hardin | U.S. actor (Bronco) (died 2017) |
| January 3 | Robert Loggia | U.S. actor (died 2015) |
| January 4 | Sorrell Booke | U.S. actor (The Dukes of Hazzard) (died 1994) |
| Rosemary Prinz | U.S. actress (As the World Turns) | |
| January 6 | Vic Tayback | U.S. actor (Alice) (died 1990) |
| February 8 | Alejandro Rey | Argentinian-born actor (The Flying Nun) (died 1987) |
| February 10 | Robert Wagner | U.S. actor (It Takes a Thief, Switch, Hart to Hart) |
| March 30 | John Astin | U.S. actor (The Addams Family) |
| April 7 | Andrew Sachs | German-born British actor (died 2016) |
| April 19 | Dick Sargent | U.S. actor (Bewitched) (died 1994) |
| April 23 | Alan Oppenheimer | U.S. actor |
| April 25 | Lynn Hamilton | U.S. actress (Sanford and Son) |
| April 28 | Carolyn Jones | U.S. actress (The Addams Family) (died 1983) |
| May 10 | Pat Summerall | American football player and sportscaster (died 2013) |
| May 17 | Frank Price | U.S. TV and film executive |
| May 31 | Clint Eastwood | U.S. director and actor (Rawhide) |
| June 12 | Jim Nabors | U.S. actor, singer (Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.) (died 2017) |
| June 28 | Horacio Gómez Bolaños | Mexican actor (died 1999) |
| July 14 | Polly Bergen | U.S. actress (died 2014) |
| July 17 | Ray Galton | British writer (died 2018) |
| August 16 | Frank Gifford | American football player and sportscaster (died 2015) |
| Robert Culp | U.S. actor (I Spy) (died 2010) | |
| August 25 | Graham Jarvis | U.S. actor (died 2003) |
| August 28 | Windsor Davies | British comedy actor (It Ain't Half Hot Mum) (died 2019) |
| Ben Gazzara | U.S. actor (Run for Your Life) (died 2012) | |
| September 11 | Cathryn Damon | U.S. actress (died 1987) |
| September 16 | Anne Francis | U.S. actress (Honey West) (died 2011) |
| November 3 | Larry Gelman | U.S. actor (The Bob Newhart Show) |
| November 15 | Whitman Mayo | U.S. actor (Sanford and Son) (died 2001) |
| December 4 | Ronnie Corbett | British comedian (died 2016) |
| December 9 | Buck Henry | U.S. writer, actor, director (died 2020) |
| December 21 | Phil Roman | U.S. animator |
Deaths
- February 19 - Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton, Scottish electrical engineer who provided the theoretical basis for the electronic television, 66[2]
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References
- Elen, Richard G. "TV Technology 2. Television on the Air". Screenonline. Retrieved February 7, 2007.
- Oakes, Elizabeth (2009), A to Z of STS Scientists. Infobase publishing, pp. 51.
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