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• January 19 - 68% of all US television sets were tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
• February 18 - Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz sign an $8,000,000 contract to continue the I Love Lucy television series through 1955.
• February 26 - Fulton Sheen, on his program Life Is Worth Living , reads Shakespeare's Julius CaesarJulius Caesar is a tragedy by William Shakespeare probably written in 1599. It portrays the conspiracy against the Roman dictator, Julius Caesar, his assassination and its aftermath. Unlike the other titular characters in Shakespeare's play (e. Hamlet, He, with the names of high-ranking Soviet officials replacing the key characters. At the end of the reading, Sheen intoned that " StalinIosif (Joseph) Vissarionovich Stalin ( Russian: Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin , original name Ioseb Jughashvili ( Georgian: Russian: Iosif Dzhugashvili see Other names section ( December 21 [ December 9, Old Style], 1879 1 March 5, 1953) was a Bolshevik rev must one day meet his judgment". In a highly-publicized incident, Stalin died one week later.
• March 25March 25 is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (85th in leap years). There are 281 days remaining. Events 708 Constantine is consecrated Pope. 1306 Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scotland. 1409 The Council of Pisa opens. 1634 The first s - CBSCBS Columbia Broadcasting System is a major radio and television network in the United States. CBS was one of the three commercial television networks that dominated broadcasting in the United States before the rise of cable television. In the days of rad concedes victory to RCARCA is a trademark used by three now separate companies descended from a common ancestor: the Radio Corporation of America . Various product lines and business interests of these companies now carry the RCA brand. History of RCA During World War I the pat in the war over color television standards.
• April 3April 3 is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 272 days remaining. Events 1559 The Treaty of the Peace of Cateau-Cambresis is signed. 1860 The first successful Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacra - TV GuideTV Guide is a weekly magazine about TV programming. The bulk of the publication consists of localized TV listings. It also features television-related news, celebrity interviews, gossip and reviews. TV Guide was first published on April 3, 1953. Its premi is published for the first time, with 10 editions and a circulation of 1,562,000.
• May 25 - KUHT in Houston becomes the first non-commercial educational TV station.
• June 2 - The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II is televised in the UK. Sales of TV sets rise sharply in the weeks leading up to the event. It is also one of the earliest broadcasts to be deliberately recorded for posterity and still exists in its entirety today.
• July 18 - The Quatermass Experiment, first of the famous Quatermass science-fiction serials by Nigel Kneale, begins its run on the BBC.
• The Tonight Show begins as a local New York variety show.
• August 30 - NBC's Kukla, Fran, and Ollie is the first publicly announced experimental broadcast of a program in RCA compatible color.
• October 19 - Arthur Godfrey fires Julius La Rosa on the air.
• November 22 - RCA airs (with special permission from the FCC) the first commercial color program in compatible color, the Colgate Comedy Hour with Donald O'Connor.
• December 24 - NBC's Dragnet becomes the first network-sponsored television program.
• December 17 – The FCC reverses its 1951 decision and approves the RCA/ NTSC color system.
• Japanese television goes on the air for the first time.