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A laugh track is used in a TV show for the first time - September 9th, 1950

9/9/2024 • 8 min

On this day in 1950, the laugh track made its TV debut on “The Hank McCune Show.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Play episode

Carnation processes its first cans of evaporated milk - September 6th, 1899
AIDS activists wrap a giant condom over Senator Jesse Helms’ house - Septe…
Barney Flaherty becomes America's first paperboy - September 4th, 1833
Flashback episode - September 3rd
Flashback episode - September 2nd
The Moscow-Washington hotline is established - August 30th, 1963
British women join the war effort - August 29th, 1914
The "Tom Thumb" locomotive races a horse-drawn railroad car - August 28th,…
"The Guinness Book of Records” is published - August 27th, 1955
A Major League baseball game is televised for the first time - August 26th…
The state of Franklin declares independence - August 23rd, 1784
Walt Disney's "The Skeleton Dance" premieres in theaters - August 22nd, 19…
An F5 tornado strikes Rochester, Minnesota - August 21st, 1883
NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft - August 20th, 1977
Benjamin Banneker writes to Thomas Jefferson in support of abolition - Aug…
Flashback episode - August 16th
Tivoli Gardens opens in Copenhagen, Denmark - August 15th, 1843
Ethel Lois Payne is born - August 14th, 1911
German acrobat Otto Witte is allegedly crowned King of Albania - August 13…
Joseph Lister performs the first antiseptic surgery - August 12th, 1865
Henry David Thoreau's "Walden" is published - August 9th, 1854
Brian Hyland’s “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini” tops the…
Alice Ramsey becomes the first woman to drive across the United States - A…
William Kemmler is executed by electric chair - August 6th, 1890
Ronald Reagan fires more than 11,000 air traffic controllers - August 5th,…
Jackie Joyner-Kersee wins her second gold medal in the heptathlon - August…
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir becomes president of Iceland - August 1st, 1980
MGM’s Leo the Lion roars for the first time - July 31st, 1928
The USS Indianapolis is torpedoed by a Japanese submarine - July 30th, 1945
Flashback episode - July 29th
Grasshoppers devastate Midwestern crops - July 26th, 1931
Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival - July 25th, 1965
The first all-star baseball team plays the Addie Joss Benefit Game - July …
Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered - July 23rd, 1995
The Duke of Wellington defeats “40,000 Frenchmen in 40 minutes” - July 22n…
The Rosetta Stone is found in Egypt - July 19th, 1799
Nadia Comăneci scores a perfect 10 at the Olympic Games - July 18th, 1976
Douglas “Wrong Way” Corrigan flies across the Atlantic - July 17th, 1938
The world’s first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City - July 16th,…
The platypus makes its U.S. debut - July 15th, 1922
"Family Feud" premieres on ABC - July 12th, 1976
The Skylab space station crashes over Australia - July 11th, 1979
Nils Bohlin patents the three-point seatbelt - July 10th, 1962
A statue of King George III is pulled down in New York City - July 9th, 17…
Ed Berners allegedly invents the ice cream sundae - July 8th, 1881
Flashback episode - July 5th
Flashback episode - July 4th
The Great Auk goes extinct - July 3rd, 1844
"Lawnchair Larry" takes flight in a homemade airship - July 2nd, 1982

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