* 1962 – Walter Cronkite takes over as the lead news anchor of the CBS Evening News, during which time he would become " the most trusted man in America ".

Like most of ASU's colleges and schools ( e. g. Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, W. P.

This was so novel a proposition at the time that it got picked up and published by Newsweek and also covered by Walter Cronkite on the CBS Evening News.

While attending the University of Texas, Wallach performed in a play with fellow students Ann Sheridan and Walter Cronkite.

In 1973 Segal disrupted the CBS evening news with Walter Cronkite, an event covered in newspapers across the country and viewed by 60 % of American households, many seeing or hearing about homosexuality for the first time.

* 1962 – Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.

* 1981 – After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.

* Walter Cronkite

* 1916 – Walter Cronkite, American news broadcaster ( d. 2009 )

It gained him mainstream recognition: on the day of the machine's unveiling, Walter Cronkite used the machine to give his signature soundoff, " And that's the way it is, January 13, 1976.

* Cronkite Remembers 1997 Part 1: Walter Cronkite describes his early years growing up in Missouri selling newspapers.

* November 4 – Walter Cronkite, American television journalist ( d. 2009 )

Hewitt, who had been a producer of the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, sought out Wallace as a stylistic contrast to Reasoner.

Walter Cronkite, who started with United Press in Kansas City, gained fame for his coverage of World War II in Europe and turned down Edward R. Murrow's first offer of a CBS job to stay with UP, but who later went on to anchor the CBS Evening News, once said, " I felt every Unipresser got up in the morning saying, ' This is the day I'm going to beat the hell out of AP.

Among them were Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley, Edwin Newman, Harrison Salisbury, several of the core members of Edward R. Murrow's famed Murrow's Boys: Charles Collingwood, Eric Sevareid, Richard C. Hottelet, Howard K. Smith, and Larry LeSueur.

While Rather was reporting from the convention floor, CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite turned his attention towards the area where Rather was reporting from and Rather was grabbed by security guards after he walked towards a delegate who was being hauled out and asked him " what is your name sir?

After the guards let go of Rather, Rather told Cronkite " Walter ... we tried to talk to the man and we got violently pushed out of the way.

Late anchorman Walter Cronkite was a prominent summer resident as well.

1, 700 applied for the Journalist in Space program, including Walter Cronkite, Tom Brokaw, Tom Wolfe, and Sam Donaldson.

In an influential broadcast on February 27, newsman Walter Cronkite stated that the war was a " stalemate " and could be ended only by negotiation.

In California, he received a role in an installment of You Are There, anchored by Walter Cronkite.

The Academy's dedication ceremony took place on that first day and was broadcast live on national television, with Walter Cronkite covering the event.

In a typically surreal SCTV sketch, the play is presented by NASA and " Buzz Aldrin's Mercury III Players ," with space-suited astronauts as the actors, and proceedings narrated by Walter Cronkite as if they were a NASA moon mission.

Past hosts include Walter Cronkite, Leslie Stahl, Jon Stewart and Larry King.

* Walter Scott Houston ( 1912 – 1993 ) who wrote the " Deep-Sky Wonders " column in Sky & Telescope magazine for almost 50 years.

* 1884 – Walter Huston, Canadian actor ( d. 1950 )

* 1886 – Walter Edward Dandy, American neurosurgeon and scientist ( d. 1946 )

* 1851 – Edward Walter Maunder, English astronomer ( d. 1928 )

* 1914 – Big Walter Price, American singer-songwriter and pianist ( d. 2012 )

* 1919 – The Staatliches Bauhaus school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar.

* 1889 – Walter Gerlach, German physicist ( d. 1979 )

* 1910 – Walter Scharf, American composer ( d. 2003 )

* 1909 – Walter Van Tilburg Clark, American novelist ( d. 1971 )

* 1963 – Lisa Ann Walter, American actress

* 1771 – Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet ( d. 1832 )

* 1937 – Walter Dean Myers, American novelist and poet

* 1928 – Walter Massey, Canadian actor

* 1915 – Walter Trampler, American violist ( d. 1997 )

* 1875 – Walter Chrysler, American automobile pioneer ( d. 1940 )

* 1585 – The expedition organised by Sir Walter Raleigh departs England for Roanoke Island ( now in North Carolina ) to establish the Roanoke Colony.

* 2011 – Walter Breuning, American super-centenarian ( b. 1896 )

# Bourgogne of Lusignan ( 1176 – 1180 or c. 1178 – c. 1210 ), married as his third wife Raymond VI of Toulouse 1193, repudiated and divorced 1194 or 1196 without issue, married Gauthier I de Montfaucon aka Walter of Montbéliard ( killed in action at the Battle of Satalia, June 20, 1212 ) 1197 or bef.

* 1931 – Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist ( d. 2004 )

* Walter Crook ( 1948 – 50 )

* Walter Crook ( 1953 – 54 )

* 1979 – Walter Gerlach, German physicist ( b. 1889 )

* 1839 – Walter Pater, English essayist and critic ( d. 1894 )