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• April 30 - After an eight year run the last episode of The Cosby Show airs. One of the show's time-slot rivals, Fox's The Simpsons, pays tribute to it with a brief animated segment.
• May 9 - The popular NBC sitcom The Golden Girls airs its final episode.
• May 22 - After 30 years, 66 year old Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show for the last time. David Letterman, who had been promised The Tonight Show by NBC upon Carson's retirement years earlier, leaves for 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 when the network gives the show to frequent guest host Jay LenoJames Douglas Muir Leno (born April 28, 1950 in New Rochelle, New York) is an American comedian best known as the host of the popular NBC television program The Tonight Show''. He grew up in Andover, Massachusetts, and received his Bachelor's degree in Sp.
• June 3June 3 is the 154th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (155th in leap years), with 211 days remaining. Events 1098 Crusaders take Antioch, Turkey. 1140 French scholar, Peter Abelard found guilty of heresy. 1608 Samuel de Champlain completes his thi - USThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in Presidential Candidate Bill ClintonWilliam Jefferson Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) is a U. politician who served two terms as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A moderate Democrat who was elected Governor of Arkansas five times, Cli appears on The Arsenio Hall ShowThe Arsenio Hall Show was a talk show which aired on late night in syndication from 1989 to 1994. It starred comedian/actor Arsenio Hall. Hall had been a host on The Late Show another talk show on the Fox Broadcasting Company. Although he was popular in t. Clinton even plays the saxophone with the live band.
• June 23June 23 is the 174th day of the year (175th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 191 days remaining. Events 1300-1899 1314 The Battle of Bannockburn south of Stirling, Edward II of England & Robert I of Scotland met in battle. Scotland won and E - Another WorldAnother World AW was a Daytime Emmy-winning American soap opera which ran on the NBC television network from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. It was co-created by Irna Phillips and William J. 8891 episodes of Another World were produced. AW spawned two soap airs its first and only primetime episode, called Summer Desire, right before the Daytime Emmy Awards.
• September - The Young and the Restless airs its milestone 5000th episode.
• October - Zee TV, the first Hindi satellite channel launched in India.
• December 31 - After 24 years, Thames Television ceases broadcasting. Carlton Television takes over its London weekday franchise.
• In Belize, Channel 5 begins the nation's first daily news broadcast.
• In Latin America, Sabado Gigante turns 30 years old, with a new show every week. The Guinness Book of Records recognized it as the longest continuously running television show in history.
• Texas billionaire Ross Perot buys blocks of U.S. television time for his Presidential campaign.
• The soap opera Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten debuts on RTL Television in Germany.
• Kalimera Ellada on ANT1 debuts as one of its first morning show in Greek language television history.
• Sailor Moon premieres on TV Asahi in Japan.