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Month After Month

Angela Channing

Telly Talk Veteran
January - First Winter Olympics were held (25th January 1924)
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bmasters9

Telly Talk Mega Star
March: birthday of the great Peter Marshall, best known of original-recipe NBC/syndicated Hollywood Squares from 1966-81, and on All-Star Blitz on ABC in 1985 (March 30, 1926 in Huntington, WV)

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bmasters9

Telly Talk Mega Star
July: birthday of the great Canadian emcee George Alexander "Alex" Trebek, best known of Jeopardy! in syndication (though he did have several other well-remembered games before that, like High Rollers on NBC, among others); July 22, 1940 in Sudbury, ON, Canada
 
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bmasters9

Telly Talk Mega Star
September: as was said in a previous thread in the forum for O-R CBS Dallas, the posthumous 87th birthday of our very own Larry Hagman as J.R. Ewing (9/21/31-11/23/2012)!

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bmasters9

Telly Talk Mega Star
Nov.: assassination of JFK (Nov. 22, 1963 in Dallas, TX; the 55th anniversary will also be Thanksgiving this year; CBS coverage from the late, great Walter Cronkite)

 

bmasters9

Telly Talk Mega Star
Feb.: birthday of the great, late computer guru Steve Jobs (2/24/55-10/5/2011); born in San Francisco, CA; co-founder of Apple Inc. (computer manufacturer)
 

bmasters9

Telly Talk Mega Star
April: Opening Day of Major League Baseball (April 2)
 
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