Events
- March 5 – Elvis Presley appears on television for the first time. The show was Louisiana Hayride, televised locally in Shreveport, Louisiana.
- April 1 – The DuMont Television Network drastically cuts back its programming; just eight series keep the network operating.
- May 9 – Harpo Marx makes a memorable appearance on I Love Lucy. Sam and Friends airs their first episode on TV.
- June 7 – The quiz show craze begins with the premiere of The 64,000 Dollar Question. The show spawns many copycats, including Twenty One the following year, which would later be the focus of a scandal that would lead to congressional hearings.
- September 22 – Commercial television starts in the UK, with the launch of ITV in London – Associated-Rediffusion on weekdays, Associated Television Network (ATV) at weekends. The rest of the UK receive their ITV regions over the next seven years.
- September 28 – The World Series is broadcast in color for the first time.
- December 10 – The first Saturday morning cartoon show debuts on American television, The Mighty Mouse Playhouse on CBS.
- December 24 – The Lennon Sisters make their television debut on The Lawrence Welk Show
- December 25 – After being on radio since 1932, the Royal Christmas Message is broadcast on British television for the first time, in sound only at 3.00pm. The first visual Christmas message is shown in 1957.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted, but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“This is certainly not the place for a discourse about what festivals are for. Discussions on this theme were plentiful during that phase of preparation and on the whole were fruitless. My experience is that discussion is fruitless. What sets forth and demonstrates is the sight of events in action, is living through these events and understanding them.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)