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1995 15th Golden Raspberry Awards: Color of Night wins

1992 6th Soul Train Music Awards: Natalie Cole and Color Me Badd win

1990 "In Living Color" premieres on FOX-TV

1986 "Today" tabloid launched (Britain's 1st national color newspaper)

1986 43th Golden Globes: Whoopi Goldberg, Color Purple win

1983 Radio Shack announces their color computer 2 (Coco2)

1983 Alice Walker wins Pulitzer Prize for "The Color Purple"

1983 Pulitzer prize awarded to Alice Walker for "Color Purple"

1978 Joseph EA "Jo" Spier, Dutch cartoonist/water color painter, dies at 77

1972 Marlon Wayans, comedian, Wayans Bros, In Living Color

1971 Shawn Wayans, actor, In Living Color

1970 Mark Caldero, Oklahoma City, vocalist, Color Me Badd-I Want to Sex You Up

1970 Sam Waters, Camp Springs, Maryland, singer, Color Me Badd-Want to Sex You Up

1969 Bryan Abrams, Oklahoma City, singer, Color Me Badd-I Want to Sex You Up

1969 Kevin Thornton, born in Amarillo, vocalist, Color Me Badd-Want to Sex You Up

1969 Apollo 10 transmit 1st color pictures of Earth from space

1968 Netherlands gets color TV

1967 Niels Meijer, Dutch rock keyboardist, Bob Color

1967 Jamie Foxx, comedian, In Living Color

1967 1st British color TV broadcast, on BBC 2

1966 1st entire lineup televised in color (NBC)

1966 Barbra Streisand stars on "Color Me Barbra" special on CBS

1965 Today Show's 1st totally color broadcast

1964 Philips begins experimenting with color TV

1962 Arend Bouwmeester, Dutch saxophonist, Bob Color

1962 ABC's 1st color TV series-Jetsons

1962 Jim Carrey, born in Ontario, Canada, actor, Living Color, Dumb and Dumber, Mask

1960 Marcel "Baaf" Stavenuiter, Dutch drummer, Bob Color

1960 Damon Wayans, actor/comedian, In Living Color, Major Payne, Blankman

1960 Wally Langdon, bassist, Bob Color

1959 1st color photograph of Earth from outer space

1959 The 1st color photograph of Earth received from outer space

1958 Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, born in Oak Park, Illinois, actress, Color of Money

1958 1st color video recording on magnetic tape

1958 Keenan Ivory Wayans, born in New York City, comedian, In Living Color

1957 John Turturro, born in Brooklyn, actor, Brain Donor, Color of Money, Jungle Fever

1956 David Alan Grier, comedian, In Living Color, Boomerang

1956 Philips broadcasts 1st Dutch color TV programs

1955 1st World Series color TV broadcast on NBC-TV (Yanks beat Dodgers)

1955 1st color telecast (NBC) of a tennis match (Davis Cup)

1955 Rob Wiedijk, Dutch rock vocalist, Bob Color

1955 1st President to appear on color TV, Eisenhower

1954 RCA manufactures 1st color TV set, a 12-inch screen for $1,000

1954 1st color telecast of a prize fight, Giardello vs Troy in MSG, New York City

1954 1st local color TV coml WNBT-TV (WNBC-TV) New York City (Castro Decorators)

1954 Oprah Winfrey, born in Mississippi, actress/TV host, Color Purple, Oprah

1953 FCC approves RCA's black and white - compatible color TV specifications

1953 1st live color coast-to-coast telecast (New York City)

1953 1st color network telecast in compatible color, Boston, Massachusetts

1951 Carmen R "Tata" Vega, U.S. soul singer, Color Purple soundtrack

1951 1st color telecast of football game on network, Philadelphia (CBS)

1951 1st color baseball game, Braves vs Dodgers, telecast, WCBS-NYC

1951 1st color telecast of a sporting event (CBS-horse race)

1951 1st color TV broadcast-CBS' Arthur Godfrey from New York City to 4 cities

1949 Whoopi Goldberg, [Caryn Johnson], New York City, actress, Color Purple, Burglar

1949 Frank de Leeuw, Dutch rock guitarist, Bob Color

1948 1st color newsreel filmed (Pasadena California)

1944 Alice Walker, U.S., novelist, Color Purple, Meridian

1940 1st showing of color TV

1938 1st public experimental demonstration of Baird color TV in London

1937 1st feature-length color and sound cartoon premieres (Snow White)

1929 1st color TV demo, New York City

1929 1st all color talking picture "On With the Show" exhibited (New York City)

1928 George Eastman shows 1st color motion pictures (U.S.)

1928 1st color TV broadcast in London (John Logic Baird)

1914 "World, the Flesh and the Devil," 1st color film, shown in London

1914 1st full color film shown "World, Flesh and Devil" in London

1906 Peter Carl Goldmark, developed color TV and LP records

1903 Countee Cullen, U.S. poet, Color, Ballad of the Brown Girl

1900 Joseph E A "Jo" Spier, Dutch cartoonist/water color painter

1894 1st newspaper Sunday color comic section published (New York World)

1893 1st newspaper color supplement (New York World)

1877 Color organ (for light shows) patented, by Bainbridge Bishop

1868 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents trichrome color photo process

1863 Patent granted for a process of making color photographs

1782 John Sell Cotman, water color artist

1627 Robert Boyle, Ireld, physicist/chemist/author, experiments with color



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