June 3: This Day in TV History

[FreddyE1977]

1992 Presidential candidate Bill Clinton gives his famous impromptu sax solo on
The Arsenio Hall Show

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

2010: Sadly, we say goodbye to actress Rue McLanahan (Mama's Family, Golden Girls), who passed away at age 76.

http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=503628&GT1=28102

 

[LKellerIII]

2010: Sadly, we say goodbye to actress Rue McLanahan (Mama's Family, Golden Girls), who passed away at age 76.

http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=503628&GT1=28102

Let's not forget that McClanahan also appeared on Maude, where she first worked with Beatrice Arthur. Rue played air-head next door neighbor Vivian Harmon (think Rose Nyland). Conrad Bain (later Diff'rent Strokes) played her husband Arthur, who always argued poltics with the liberal Maude, as her Republican foil.

I thought I'd bring that up in case one of the celebrities-dying-in-threes types wanted to propose some weird 'one-degree' of separation thing with Gary Coleman's death.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

An event in weather history occurred 30 years ago today that inspired a book and made-for-TV Family Channel movie, "The Night of the Twisters" with John Schneider (1996):

1980: A massive supercell thunderstorm spawns a family of seven tornadoes in and near Grand Island, Nebraska, killing five people while injuring 200, and causing $300 million worth of damage.

The National Weather Service office in Hastings, NE has a page devoted to the 30th anniversary of the Grand Island disaster, with more information on the storms:

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=gid&storyid=53032&source=0

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=gid&storyid=53201&source=0