In Gallatin, Tennessee in November 1954, a 10-year-old girl, Linda Wood, was watching Storm on a Sunday night television variety show, NBC's Colgate Comedy Hour, hosted by Gordon MacRae, singing one of the popular songs of the day.

The show was hosted by Chris Tarrant, Lenny Henry and Helen Atkinson Wood.

She hosted a charity event for the centre with Mick Jagger and guests Ron Wood and Michael Berg.

Jack Narz hosted the first three seasons of the series before leaving and his announcer, Gene Wood, replaced him for the remainder of the run.

Announcer Gene Wood hosted the show for the next two seasons.

In 2005, it was announced that programme creator Andrew Wood had signed a contract with Granada Media for Granada to produce a one-hour long celebrity special Bullseye show to be hosted by Ant & Dec.

The original version, hosted by Richard Dawson, ran on ABC from 1976 to 1985, and when Family Feud was revived in 1988 with Ray Combs as host, Wood announced on that version as well through the 1994-1995 season, during which Dawson returned as host.

At that same time, Wood also announced on the nightly syndicated version hosted by Tom Kennedy until Roddy took over on that version as well.

* May 12, 2005 — The Xbox 360 was officially announced on MTV in a special hosted by Elijah Wood.

In the 19th century, the Russian Baroness Méry von Bruiningk hosted a salon in St. John's Wood, London, for refugees ( mostly German ) of the revolutions of 1848 ( the Forty-Eighters ).

It was hosted by Bert Convy, with several announcers, including Jack Clark, Gene Wood, Johnny Olson and John Harlan, providing the voiceover at various times.

The show was hosted by Tina Wood, Laura Foy, and Geoff Keighley ( who replaced original host and co-producer Scot Rubin in 2004 and started hosting the Spike TV show Game Head ( now known as GameTrailers TV in mid-2005 ).

From 2007 to 2009 McCourt and Wood hosted the daytime version of Are You Smarter Than A 10 Year Old?

It had four main syndicated programmes: a weekday mid-morning programme hosted by Phillippa Collins ( this show was only carried on a few stations, when taken over by Global radio the show was rolled out to all stations ) a weeknightly music and showbiz based programme ( formerly called ' Core Control ' and then ' Music Control ') ( weekdays 7pm to 10pm ) presented by Kam and Sally, Kam was replaced by Kevin Hughes, ' Late Night Love ' ( Sunday to Thursday 10pm to 1am ) presented by Graham Torrington ( later the show was replaced by ' the wind down ' presented by Cat James ) and Music On Demand ( 1am till Breakfast, 7 days a week ) presented by Dan Wood or Andy Henley.

The town hosts the Maleny Wood Expo From Chainsaw to Fine Furniture each year, hosted by Barung Landcare and showcases the regions finest wood artisans.

Abbey Wood also hosted London's first cable TV station at Wickham Lane.

* December 4 – Garfield Wood, American motorboat racer ( d. 1971 )

As the distribution of the journal and the teaching practice of the editors and others developed, the conversation expanded and multiplied to include by 1971 ( in England ) Charles Harrison, Philip Pilkington, David Rushton, Lynn Lemaster, Sandra Harrison, Graham Howard, Paul Wood, and ( in New York ) Michael Corris, and later Paula Ramsden, Mayo Thompson, Christine Kozlov, Preston Heller, Andrew Menard and Kathryn Bigelow.

Foyt won the 1971 and 1972 races at the Ontario Motor Speedway for Wood Brothers Racing.

Wood ( Resigned July, 1971 ), H. Merritt ( Appointed July, 1971 ), J. Aikens ( Resigned September, 1971 ), J. Morrison ( Appointed September, 1971 )

The Whalers franchise was born in November 1971 when the World Hockey Association awarded a franchise to New England businessmen Howard Baldwin, John Coburn, W. Godfrey Wood and William Edwin Barnes, to begin play in Boston.

Wood is a US Army veteran, ( 1970 – 1971 ), served as a Veterans Service Officer for the State of North Carolina Division of Veterans Affairs, ( 1987 – 1989 ), as Vice-Chairman of the Guilford County Republican Party, ( 1980 – 1984 ), and on the North Carolina Republican Party Executive Committee, ( 1984 – present ).

In 1971, Wood appeared in the April 1971 Playboy issue, along with her poetry.

In 1971, the current municipal structure took hold when Cardwell Township, Watt Township, Medora and Wood Townships, Bala, Port Carling, Windermere and part of Monck Township were merged.

In 1958, Wood opened Magic Mountain near Denver ( closed in 1960 but revitalized in Southern California in 1971 ), Pleasure Island in Wakefield, Massachusetts, in 1959 ( closed in 1969 ), and finally Freedomland in 1960.

* Lester Piggott – Pindari ( 1959 ), St Paddy ( 1960 ), Ragazzo ( 1965 ), Meadowville ( 1970 ), Athens Wood ( 1971 ), Our Mirage ( 1972 ), Alleged ( 1977 ), Noble Saint ( 1979 ), Prince Bee ( 1980 )

* George Wood ( cricketer ) ( 1893 – 1971 ), English cricketer

* John Wood ( Scottish footballer ) ( 1894 – 1971 ), Scottish football forward

The Tissot company was also the first to make watches out of plastic ( IDEA 2001 in 1971 ), stone ( the Alpine granite Rock watch in 1985 ), mother of pearl ( the Pearl watch in 1987 ), and wood ( the Wood watch in 1988 ).

* St. Leger-( 8 )-St Paddy ( 1960 ), Aurelius ( 1961 ), Ribocco ( 1967 ), Ribero ( 1968 ), Nijinsky ( 1970 ), Athens Wood ( 1971 ), Boucher ( 1972 ), Commanche Run ( 1984 )

* 1971 – 1972 Ray Wood

* Robert E. Wood ( painter ) ( b. 1971 ), Canadian landscape artist

The 1972 version included photos of the battlefield taken in 1971, including the Lochnager mine crater, Delville Wood and the Butte de Warlencourt.

Garfield ‘ Gar ’ Arthur Wood ( December 4, 1880 – June 19, 1971 ) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, motorboat builder and racer who held the world water speed record on several occasions.

The station reverted to its original name of Wood Green on 18 March 1971, but was again renamed, this time to Alexandra Palace, on 17 May 1982.

In 1971, Goodwin married Walter Wood, a business executive, and for many years the couple lived in New York.

* 2005 – Robert Coldwell Wood, American political scientist and educator ( b. 1923 )

The most important Canadian theorist was an American immigrant, Henry Wise Wood, president of the United Farmers of Alberta ( UFA ) during that movement's time as the governing party of the province ( 1921 – 1935 ).

* Haliotis corrugata Wood, 1828 – the pink abalone

* 1972 – Matthew Wood, American voice actor and sound editor

* 1898 – Arthur Wood, English cricketer ( d. 1973 )

* 1987 – Jacqueline MacInnes Wood, Canadian actress, DJ and singer

Miss Wood passed her research on to her student Belinda Quirey, and also to Pavlova Company ballerina & choreographer Mary Skeaping ( 1902 – 1984 ).

The leading figures of the second generation of historical dance research include Shirley Wynne and her Baroque Dance Ensemble which was founded at Ohio State University in the early 1970s and Wendy Hilton ( 1931 – 2002 ), a student of Belinda Quirey who supplemented the work of Melusine Wood with her own research into original sources.

* 1825 – Samuel Newitt Wood, American Politician ( d. 1891 )

* 1978 – Edward D. Wood, Jr., American filmmaker ( b. 1924 )

Dylan Marlais Thomas ( 27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953 ) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems, " Do not go gentle into that good night ", " And death shall have no dominion ", the " play for voices ", Under Milk Wood, and stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.

* Under Milk Wood ( Caedmon TC 2005 – 1953 )

* Dylan Thomas: Under Milk Wood and other plays ( Naxos Audiobooks NA288712 – 2008 ) ( originally BBC – 1954 )

Dolores Agnes Fuller ( born Dolores Eble ; March 10, 1923 – May 9, 2011 ) was an American actress and songwriter best known as the one-time girlfriend of the low-budget film director Edward D. Wood, Jr. She played the protagonist's girlfriend in Glen or Glenda, co-starred in Wood's Jail Bait, and had a minor role in Bride of the Monster.

* Roy Wood – lead vocals, guitar, bass guitar, cello, clarinet, bassoon, oboe, drums, recorder, producer, songwriter, arranger

* 1891 – Grant Wood, American painter ( d. 1942 )

* 1892 – Peggy Wood, American actress ( d. 1978 )

* 1918 – World War I: Battle of Belleau Wood – The U. S. Marine Corps suffers its worst single day's casualties while attempting to recapture the wood at Chateau-Thierry.

* 1918 – World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood – Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.

* 1944 – Chris Wood, English saxophonist ( Traffic and Ginger Baker's Air Force ) ( d. 1983 )

* 1963 – David Wood, American lawyer and environmentalist ( d. 2006 )

* 1918 – World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood – Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.