Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox. The show, which originally aired for seven seasons, centered around cousins Bo Duke After overcoming a period of hardship, the fledgling colony began to celebrate the anniversary of this date with Navy Lt.
Everett Alvarez Jr. First taken prisoner when his plane was shot down on August 5, , he became the longest-held POW in U. Alvarez was downed over Hon Gai during the first bombing raids against On January 26, , just about a week after his inauguration, President John F.
Kennedy appoints Janet Travell, 59, as his personal physician, making her the first woman in history to hold the post.
Travell possessed an impressive resume that included graduating with honors On January 26, , President George W. Bush appoints Condoleezza Rice to the post of secretary of state, making her the highest ranking African American woman ever to serve in a presidential cabinet. A native of Birmingham, Alabama, Dr. The Chicago-based Pinkerton Detective The dismembered body of Florence Polillo is found in a basket and several burlap sacks in Cleveland.
The year-old woman was the third victim in 18 months to be found dismembered with precision. Farnsworth, who grew up on a farm in Utah, reportedly came up with his big idea—a vacuum tube that could dissect images into lines, transmit those lines and turn them back into images—while still a teenager in chemistry class. The U. Though viewed by many historians as the true father of television, Farnsworth never earned much more from his invention, and was dogged by patent appeal lawsuits from RCA.
He later moved on to other fields of research, including nuclear fission, and died in debt in By , there were only a few hundred televisions in use in the United States. With radio still dominating the airwaves— more than 80 percent of American homes owned one at the time—TV use grew slowly over the course of the decade, and by the mids, the United States had 23 television stations and counting.
By , a year after the debut of the hit variety show Texaco Star Theater , hosted by comedian Milton Berle, the nation boasted 1 million TV sets in use. By the s, television had truly entered the mainstream, with more than half of all American homes owning TV sets by As the number of consumers expanded, new stations were created and more programs broadcast, and by the end of that decade TV had replaced radio as the main source of home entertainment in the United States. During the presidential election, the young, handsome John F.
Kennedy had a noticeable advantage over his less telegenic opponent, Richard M. Nixon in televised debates, and his victory that fall would bring home for many Americans the transformative impact of the medium. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!
Twice a week we compile our most fascinating features and deliver them straight to you. One day while working in the fields among rows of vegetables, he was inspired. He realized that a picture could be dissected by a simple television camera into a series of lines of electricity. The lines would be transmitted so quickly that the eyes would merge the lines. Then, a cathode ray tube television receiver would change those lines back into a picture. Initially, television was available only in black and white, even though experiments with color began in the s; however, you could not buy a color television until Nobel laureate Ferdinand Braun invented the cathode ray tube, the basis of all modern television cameras and receivers.
Vladimir Zworykin improved television with the invention of a completely electric camera—the Iconoscope, and a receiver—the Kinescope, which both used a cathode ray tube. Pictured above from left to right: Loggie Barid with his mechanical TV system, the spinning disc was early mechanical technology, Philo Farnsworth demonstrating his television system and a diagram of cathode ray tube.
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