With apologies to Stanislav, when I replied to the previous "June 12: This Day in TV History" thread from last year in order to bump it for tomorrow, I did not realize that he had inadvertently meant to say "July 12." I could not find another June 12 thread in past posts. Anyway, here's a few June 12 TV history happenings (I just mainly have checked on Wikipedia because of time constraints)--feel free to add more:
1908: Alphonse Ouimet (died 1988)--helped design the first Canadian TV set in 1932, and later was CBC president from 1958-67.
1930: Jim Nabors ("Andy Griffith Show," "Gomer Pyle USMC") born in Sylacauga, AL.
1941: "YYYYEEEEESSSSS!!!!!" Marv Albert was born (as Marvin Philip Aufrichtig) in Brooklyn, NY.
1957: Timothy Busfield ("Thirtysomething," "Byrds of Paradise," "West Wing") born in Lansing, MI.
1963: Tim DeKay ("New Adventures of Old Christine") born in Ithaca, NY.
1994: Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her LA home. Need I say more . . . (and IMO this incident marks the beginning of the end for daytime soap operas such as "Loving," "Another World," and in September "Guiding Light"--I think we all know what I'm referring too).
Also in 1994: Christopher Collins (b. 1949), who appeared on "Star Trek: The Next Generation," on "Married With Children" (as Roger, a bowling buddy of Al Bundy, and as a mugger in the "Seinfeld" episode "The Subway," dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Ventura, CA.
2003: Gregory Peck (b. 1916) dies in Los Angeles. The venerable actor played Abraham Lincoln in the 1982 CBS miniseries "The Blue and the Grey."
2007: Don Herbert (b. 1917), television's "Mr. Wizard" since 1951, dies in Bell Canyon, CA.
2009: With the exception of some translators and Class A's, all remaining analog television transmission in the US switches to digital.
1908: Alphonse Ouimet (died 1988)--helped design the first Canadian TV set in 1932, and later was CBC president from 1958-67.
1930: Jim Nabors ("Andy Griffith Show," "Gomer Pyle USMC") born in Sylacauga, AL.
1941: "YYYYEEEEESSSSS!!!!!" Marv Albert was born (as Marvin Philip Aufrichtig) in Brooklyn, NY.
1957: Timothy Busfield ("Thirtysomething," "Byrds of Paradise," "West Wing") born in Lansing, MI.
1963: Tim DeKay ("New Adventures of Old Christine") born in Ithaca, NY.
1994: Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her LA home. Need I say more . . . (and IMO this incident marks the beginning of the end for daytime soap operas such as "Loving," "Another World," and in September "Guiding Light"--I think we all know what I'm referring too).
Also in 1994: Christopher Collins (b. 1949), who appeared on "Star Trek: The Next Generation," on "Married With Children" (as Roger, a bowling buddy of Al Bundy, and as a mugger in the "Seinfeld" episode "The Subway," dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Ventura, CA.
2003: Gregory Peck (b. 1916) dies in Los Angeles. The venerable actor played Abraham Lincoln in the 1982 CBS miniseries "The Blue and the Grey."
2007: Don Herbert (b. 1917), television's "Mr. Wizard" since 1951, dies in Bell Canyon, CA.
2009: With the exception of some translators and Class A's, all remaining analog television transmission in the US switches to digital.