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2007 Alan Coren, English writer, satirist, and humorist, worked with the BBC, died of necrotising fasciitis

2007 BBC journalist Alan Johnston is freed by Palestinian kidnappers

2002 Barry Took, comedian, writer, television presenter on BBC program Points of View and BBC Radio 4 program The News Quiz, wrote comedy with Mary Feldman

1998 Joan Hickson, actress, Miss Marple for the BBC, dies at 92

1997 Alan Charig, paleontologist, BBC science show presenter, dies at 70

1996 Hugo Gryn, rabbi, broadcaster, appeared on BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day, leading voice in interfaith dialogue, dies at 66

1996 Clay Jones, horticulturalist, broadcaster, Chairman of the program Gardener's Question Time on BBC Radio 4, voted tenth alongside Carol Klein as the nation's all-time favorite gardener, dies at 72

1996 Cecilia Grace Hunt Reeves Gillie, bBC Executive, dies at 88

1996 John Derrick Mordaunt Snagge, news commentator (BBC), dies at 91

1995 Peter Woods, journalist, newsreader, broadcaster, famous newsreader, appeared on News Room for BBC News, dies at 64

1995 Leonard Hirsch, British violinist and conducter, BBC Empire Orchestra, dies at 92

1994 Beatles' 1st album in 25 years, Live at BBC, is released in Britain

1994 Roy Castle, singer, musician, jazz trumpet player, television celebrity, starred in BBC's 'The Roy Castle Show', dies at age 62 in Buckinghamshire, England

1994 John Harrison, South African correspondent (BBC), dies at 48

1993 David Willis, British journalist (BBC World Service), dies at 54

1990 On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying that she will never have children and no man can stand her for long

1987 1st condom commercial on BBC TV

1984 NBC airs BBC footage of Ethiopian famine

1982 BBC warns Britain will bomb Argentina

1979 Johnny Rotten and Joan Collins appear together on BBC's Juke Box Jury

1978 BBC bans Sex Pistols "No One is Innocent"

1974 "Monty Python's Flying Circus" last shown on BBC

1974 Monty Python's final episode airs on BBC

1974 BBC Ceefax begins 1st teletext service

1973 John Cleese's final episode on "Monty Python's Flying Circus," on BBC

1973 Tap dancer Ray Castle measured at 1440 taps/minute on BBC TV

1972 BBC bans Wings "Hi, Hi, Hi"

1972 BBC bans "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" by Wings

1970 Ray Davies of Kinks travels round trip NY-London to change 1 word in "Lola," (Coca-Cola to Cherry Cola) because of BBC coml reference ban

1969 Monty Python's Flying Circus begins airing on BBC

1969 BBC orders 13 episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus

1969 BBC Radio serial "Dales" 5,400th and last episode

1967 BBC broadcasts "Magical Mystery Tour"

1967 BBC unofficially bans "I Am the Walrus" by Beatles

1967 BBC starts their own popular music radio station

1967 1st British color TV broadcast, on BBC 2

1967 BBC starts their World Radio Club

1967 BBC bans Beatle's "A Day in the Life" (drug references)

1966 BBC opens a relay radio station on Ascension Island

1964 David Frost interviews Paul McCartney on BBC

1963 1st demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London

1963 1st transmission of "Pop Go the Beatles" on BBC radio

1962 Beatles, with Pete Best, TV debut (perform "Dream Baby" on BBC)

1962 Beatles made their broadcasting debut on BBC radio

1960 Ian Hislop, born in Mumbles, Wales, writer, editor, Private Eye magazine, broadcaster, radio, television, team captain on BBC's 'Have I Got News for You'

1960 Goon Show's final episode on BBC

1959 Paul McGann, born in Liverpool, England, actor, breakout role in BBC's The Monocled Mutineer, appeared as Eighth Doctor in 1996 television movie, Dr. Who

1955 Mike Smith, born in Britain, British DJ, radio presenter, racing car driver, pilot, businessman, Breakfast Show Presenter of BBC Radio One 1986 - 1988, used on-air nickname 'Smithy'

1953 Judi Spiers, born in Britain, Judith Marilyn Spiers, British radio and television presenter, hosted Mr TSW and Miss TSW local beauty contests for new south-west station TSW, appeared in six editions of daytime chat show, presented on Open Air, a BBC1 access television program, in 1986, and Pebble Mill program 1992- 1995, presenter, BBC Radio Devon since 2005

1951 Nicholas Kenyon, controller, BBC Radio 3

1950 1st transmission of a TV program from continental Europe shown on BBC

1950 David Jensen, born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, David 'Kid' Jensen, popular British radio DJ, played progressive music, hosted BBC pop network, Radio 1, Top of the Pops presenter, interviewed Duran Duran, promoted The Police before they were commercially successful

1949 BBC radio begins broadcasting

1949 Brian Hanrahan, British TV newsman, BBC

1948 Gareth Roscoe, legal adviser, BBC

1947 Simon Bates, born in Birmingham, English, UK disc jockey, worked at BBC Radio 1 1976 - 1993, and Classic FM

1946 John Harrison, South Africa correspondent, BBC

1945 Dave Lee Travis, born in Derbyshire, England, radio presenter, stage name DLT, hosted shows on Garrison Radio, BBC Radio 1, Magic Network, DAB Digital Radio

1943 Bert Jansch, born in Glasgow, Scotland, musician, folk artist, acoustic guitarist, singer, songwriter, member of the band Pentangle, winner, BBC Folk Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award

1942 1st broadcast of Roy Plomley's "Desert Island Discs" on BBC

1941 BBC World Service begins playing V(ictory) (...-) 5th of Beethoven

1940 General Charles de Gaulle on BBC tells French to defy nazi occupiers

1940 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina speaks on BBC radio

1940 Anne Campbell, born in England, politician, Labor Member of Parliament for Cambridge, portrayed by Harriet Walter in 10 Days to War, a BBC drama on events leading up to the Iraq War

1938 David Willis, British journalist, BBC World Service

1938 BBC's 1st feature film on TV (Student of Prague)

1938 Alan Coren, born in London, England, English writer, satirist, and humorist, worked with the BBC

1936 1st high-definition TV broadcast service, by BBC in London

1934 Margaret Douglas, chief political adviser, BBC

1932 Roy Castle, born in Scholes, England, singer, musician, jazz trumpet player, television celebrity, starred in BBC's 'The Roy Castle Show'

1931 Kenneth Bloomfield, BBC governor, Ireland

1930 Peter Woods, born in Britain, journalist, newsreader, broadcaster, famous newsreader, appeared on News Room for BBC News

1930 1st concerto of BBC Symphony Orchestra, under Adrian Boult

1930 Jack Bannister, cricketer, Warwickshire stalwart, commentator, BBC

1930 Hugo Gryn, born in Britain, rabbi, broadcaster, appeared on BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day, leading voice in interfaith dialogue

1928 Barry Took, born in Muswell Hill, North London, England, comedian, writer, television presenter on BBC program Points of View and BBC Radio 4 program The News Quiz, wrote comedy with Mary Feldman

1926 Richard F. Attenborough, environmentalist/zoologist, BBC

1926 Gudrun Ure, British actress, Lady MacBeth, BBC Sorcerer

1923 BBC begins using Big Ben chime ID

1923 Clay Jones, born in England, horticulturalist, broadcaster, Chairman of the program Gardener's Question Time on BBC Radio 4, voted tenth alongside Carol Klein as the nation's all-time favorite gardener

1922 BBC sends 1st British radio play "Truth about Father Christmas"

1922 BBC Radio began daily newscasts

1922 BBC begins domestic radio service from 2LO at Marconi House

1922 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) forms

1915 Maurice B. Latey, commentator, BBC World Service

1914 George Tabori, born in Budapest, Gyorgy Tabori, writer, theater director, worked for BBC in London, moved to United States, became screenwriter, translated works by Bertolt Brecht, Max Frisch

1912 Brian Johnston, cricketer, BBC radio commentator and cake connoisseur

1909 John Arkell, director of administration, BBC

1908 Albrecht Goes, born in Germany, pastor with the German army, writer, novelist, BBC Television in the United Kingdom adapted Unruhige Nacht in 1950, his novel, translated in English as 'Arrow to the Heart'

1907 Cecilia Grace Hunt Reeves Gillie, Executive, BBC

1904 John Derrick Mordaunt Snagge, bBC news announcer/commentator

1904 John Snagge, commentator, BBC

1889 John Charles Reith, 1st Baron Reith, 1st director-general BBC, 1927-38

1889 Adrian Boult, born in Chester, England, conductor and composer, BBC Symphony Orchestra


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