1926 in television
The year 1926 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1926.
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Global television events
| Month | Day | Event |
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| January | 26 | John Logie Baird demonstrates the world's first television system to transmit live, moving images with tone graduations, to 40 members of the Royal Institution. The 30-line images are scanned mechanically by a disk with a spiral of lenses at 12.5 images per second. |
| August | 18 | A weather map is televised for the first time, sent from NAA Arlington to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington, D.C. |
| December | 25 | Japanese researcher Kenjiro Takayanagi demonstrates a system that uses a mechanical Nipkow disk and a photoelectric tube in the transmitting device, and a cathode ray tube in the receiving device. He transmits the 40-line still image of a Japanese character.[1] |
Births
| Date | Name | Notability |
|---|---|---|
| January 8 | Soupy Sales | U.S. comedian and actor (died 2009) |
| February 20 | Whitney Blake | U.S. actress (Hazel) (died 2002) |
| March 1 | Robert Clary | French-U.S. actor (Hogan's Heroes) |
| March 16 | Jerry Lewis | U.S. comedian and actor (died 2017) |
| April 22 | Charlotte Rae | U.S. actress (The Facts of Life) (died 2018) |
| April 30 | Cloris Leachman | U.S. actress (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Phyllis, Raising Hope) |
| May 5 | Ann B. Davis | U.S. actress (The Brady Bunch) (died 2014) |
| May 8 | Sir David Attenborough | British naturalist, documentary-maker and television executive |
| Don Rickles | U.S. comedian and actor (died 2017) | |
| May 29 | Katie Boyle | Italian-born British television personality (Eurovision Song Contest) (died 2018) |
| June 1 | Andy Griffith | U.S. actor, producer (The Andy Griffith Show) (died 2012) |
| June 28 | Mel Brooks | U.S. comedy writer, actor, director, producer (Get Smart) |
| July 10 | Fred Gwynne | U.S. actor (Car 54, Where Are You?, The Munsters) (died 1993) |
| October 11 | Earle Hyman | U.S. actor (The Cosby Show, ThunderCats) (died 2017) |
| October 17 | Julie Adams | U.S. actress (Murder, She Wrote) (died 2019) |
| November 9 | Johnny Beattie | Scottish actor (died 2020) |
| November 25 | Jeffrey Hunter | U.S. actor (Temple Houston, Star Trek) (died 1969) |
References
- The Evolution of TV: A Brief History of TV Technology in Japan, Kenjiro Takayanagi: The Father of Japanese Television Archived January 1, 2016, at the Wayback Machine.
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