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In August 1977, NBC premiered a situation comedy called The Kallikaks, which depicted the comic misadventures of an Appalachian family that moved to California and feuded with another family named the Jukes ; the series lasted only five episodes.
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Since 1977, New Zealand has celebrated Arbor Day on June 5, which is also World Environment Day, prior to then Arbor Day, in New Zealand, was celebrated on August 4 – which is rather late in the year for tree planting in New Zealand hence the date change.
In August 1977 the British Lions made a stopover in Fiji on the way home from their tour of New Zealand.
The band toured in support in the US only from October 1976 to April 1977 with a break in December, then an American Music Award show appearance on 31 January 1977, plus a one-off gig in San Diego in August 1977.
On August 15, 1977 the " Wow!
Julius Henry " Groucho " Marx ( October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977 ) was an American comedian and film and television star.
August 19, 1977
Francis Gary Powers ( August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977 ) was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.
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From January 1976 to August 1979, Jones served in the Officer Assignments Section at Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. During this assignment, he was promoted to major in July 1977.
On 10 August 1977, after making 320 appearances and scoring 167 goals for Celtic, Dalglish was signed by Liverpool manager Bob Paisley for a British transfer fee record of £ 440, 000.
He made his debut, wearing Keegan's number seven shirt, on 13 August 1977 in the season opener at Wembley, in the Charity Shield against Manchester United.
On 14 August 1977 Susana Leonor Siver and her partner Marcelo Carlos Reinhold, both Montoneros fighters, were kidnapped from Reinold's mother home along with a friend by a fifteen-strong naval intelligence team and taken to the ESMA naval detention camp.
On August 17, 1977, the Soviet nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika completed the first surface vessel journey to the North Pole.
In August 1977, Asphalt Jungle played at the second Mont de Marsan punk festival.
In August 1977, the Chairman of the Democratic Party of Puerto Rico, Franklin Delano López, testified before the UN Decolonization Committee denouncing the colonial nature of the Commonwealth Status.
Since a paper describing the algorithm had been published in August 1977, prior to the December 1977 filing date of the patent application, regulations in much of the rest of the world precluded patents elsewhere and only the US patent was granted.
Her husband died of throat cancer on August 19, 1977 and her brother, her only sibling, died of cancer that November.
On August 19, 1977, an earthquake measuring 7. 0 on the Richter scale occurred, killing 316 people, including islands off the West coast.
The OSU SETI program gained fame on August 15, 1977 when Jerry Ehman, a project volunteer, witnessed a startlingly strong signal received by the telescope.
On August 12, 1977, the space shuttle Enterprise flew on its own for the first time.
On 18 August 1977, Biko was arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 and interrogated by officers of the Port Elizabeth security police including Harold Snyman and Gideon Nieuwoudt.
August and NBC
* On August 13, 2009, the Dallas NBC affiliate reported that EDS employees were being warned not to talk to the media about the salary cuts.
On Sunday, August 8, 2010, NBC announced the televised opening festivities of the evening would begin with Taylor Swift and Dave Matthews Band.
The game, played on Sunday, August 9, 2009 at Canton ’ s Pro Football Hall of Fame Field at Fawcett Stadium, was nationally televised on NBC.
* August 31 – The Great Gildersleeve debuts on NBC Radio.
On 4 August 1955, Miranda suffered a heart attack during a segment of the live NBC television series, The Jimmy Durante Show.
The three major networks of the time agreed to take turns covering the hearings live, each network thus maintained coverage of the hearings every third day, starting with ABC on May 17 and ending with NBC on August 7.
Smackout was picked up by NBC in April 1933 and broadcast nationally until August 1935.
On August 4, 1955, The Jimmy Durante Show on NBC was the venue of the final performance by the famous Brazilian singer Carmen Miranda.
So in 1993, Letterman and his crew moved to CBS and Late Show with David Letterman was born, beginning on August 30, 1993, although NBC would air repeats of Late Night until September 10, 1993.
* August 31, 1987, American Splendor author Harvey Pekar accuses Letterman to be a shill for NBC parent company General Electric ; the segment ends prematurely.
Around the same time of the September 2010 premiere of the show, the Press of Atlantic City created Boss of the Boardwalk, a 45-minute documentary which premiered on August 21, 2010 on NBC TV-40 and aired six additional times in the following weeks.
In August 1943, NBC was ordered to divest itself of the Blue Network and its stations ; WENR and Blue were sold to Edward J. Noble.
Connie Chung, full name: Constance Yu-Hwa Chung Povich (; born August 20, 1946 ) is an American journalist who has been an anchor and reporter for the U. S. television news networks NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and MSNBC.
In August 2007, Michelle Madigan, a reporter for Dateline NBC, attempted to secretly record hackers admitting to crimes at the convention.
She exited the role of Whitney on September 6, 2007, the second to last day the show aired on NBC but returned for the show's finale episodes briefly from Mid-July 2008 to early August 2008 in a guest appearance.
The next Monday, August 3, the program is renamed NBC Nightly News, its title to this day.
* August 2 – NBC expands full-service newscasts to seven nights a week with NBC Sunday News ; it replaces The Frank McGee Report.
It left MBS for NBC Blue after August 1935.
The broadcasts were successful enough that NBC kept it on the Saturday morning schedule for a full three seasons, until August 1972, when it was canceled.
The Huntley-Brinkley Report was renamed NBC Nightly News in August 1970 upon the retirement of Chet Huntley.
* " Huntley-Brinkley Report / NBC Nightly News Ticker " ( August 3, 1970 – November 10, 1972 ; the theme had been used since 1962, when the program was still The Huntley-Brinkley Report )
In August 2010, Martin Bashir left Nightline to be an anchor on NBC and MSNBC, he was subsequently replaced by Bill Weir.
On August 6, 1973, after Hart left for NBC, in an effort to emulate The Today Show, Rudd was teamed up with former Washington Post reporter Sally Quinn.
In August 2010 Bashir left ABC for NBC and MSNBC where he serves as a contributor for Dateline and an afternoon anchor for MSNBC, as well as an occasional substitute host for Lawrence O ' Donnell.
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