1921: Church Service Goes Live
On January 2, 1921, KDKA carried a Pittsburgh church service, showing how live radio could bring communal events into distant homes.
Category: Pop – This Day
1965: Lost in Space Premieres on Television
CBS premiered Lost in Space, a science-fiction series about the Robinson family’s disrupted mission to colonize another world.
1966: The Metropolitan Opera Opens at Lincoln Center
The Metropolitan Opera inaugurated its Lincoln Center home with the world premiere of Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra.
1983: Vanessa Williams Is Crowned Miss America
Vanessa Williams became the first Black woman crowned Miss America.
1964: The Addams Family Premieres on ABC
The Addams Family television series premiered, adapting Charles Addams’s macabre New Yorker cartoons into a half-hour sitcom.
1970: The Mary Tyler Moore Show Debuts
CBS premiered The Mary Tyler Moore Show, centered on an unmarried television-news producer building an independent life and career in Minneapolis.