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1998 Phil Hartman, comic, Saturday Night Live, dies at 49
1994 Baseball Night in America premieres, no Saturday day games 1994 Joe Mays, actor (Mr Saturday Night), dies of AIDS at 44 1992 NBC's "Saturday Today" premieres 1991 Cyril Poitier, actor (Uptown Saturday Night), dies of cancer at 80 1991 Julie Bovasso, actress (Saturday Night Fever), dies at 61 of cancer 1990 Norman Cousins, editor (Saturday Review), dies at 75 1990 3rd time Saturday Night Live uses time delay (Andrew Dice Clay hosts) 1990 Nora Dunn and Sinead O'Connor boycott Saturday Night Live to protest Andrew "Dice" Clay's hosting 1989 Toonces The Cat takes the wheel on Saturday Night Live 1987 Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday and Saturday with Gary Hart 1986 2nd time Saturday Night Live uses a time delay (Sam Knison hosts) 1984 Ringo appears on Saturday Night Live 1982 Drew Barrymore at age 7 hosts Saturday Night Live 1980 Paul and Linda McCartney appear on Saturday Night Live 1978 Norman Rockwell, artist (Saturday Evening Post covers), dies at 84 1978 Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album goes #1 for 24 weeks 1977 "Saturday Night Fever,"starring John Travolta, premieres in New York City 1977 Coneheads debut on "Saturday Night Live" 1976 George Harrison appears on Saturday Night Live 1975 1st time Saturday Night Live uses a time delay - Richard Pryor as host 1975 "Saturday Night Live" premieres with guest host George Carlin 1975 Saturday Night Live premieres with George Carlin as host 1974 Stewart Alsop, columnist and political analyst, worked for Saturday Evening Post and Newsweek, dies 1971 CBS radio cancels Saturday morning band concerts 1971 Bill Stern, sportscaster (Saturday Night Fights), dies at 64 1971 Kermit Maynard, cowboy actor (Saturday Roundup), dies at 68 1969 Last edition of Saturday Evening Post 1966 Nan Woods, actress, 1 More Saturday Night 1965 Ellen Cleghorne, comedienne, Saturday Night Live 1965 Rob Schneider, actor, Saturday Night Live, Men Behaving Badly 1964 Chip Foster, actor, Chip and Pepper's Surf's Up Saturday 1964 Pepper Foster, actress, Chip and Pepper's Surf's Up Saturday 1963 American Bandstand moves to California, and airs once a week on Saturday 1962 Black Saturday - Russian nuclear missile crisis in Cuba 1961 Harry Enfield, comedian, Dermot-Men Behaving Badly, Saturday Live 1957 Congress gives Post Office $41M; restoring Saturday mail delivery 1957 Saturday mail delivery restored after Congress givs PO $41 million 1957 Due to lack of funds, Saturday mail delivery in U.S. is temp halted 1954 David Paymer, actor, Love Mary, Mr. Saturday Night 1953 Hal Ketchum, born in Greenwich, New York, country singer, Small Town Saturday Night 1952 King Farouk I of Egypt abdicates [Black Saturday] 1952 Laraine Newman, born in Los Angeles, California, comedienne and actress on Saturday Night Live 1950 ABC begins Saturday morning kid shows (Animal Clinic and Acrobat Ranch) 1943 Kenny Vance, born in New York City, New York, musician, singer, producer, member of Jay and the Americans, guest singer on Saturday Night Live, supervised music for film Animal House 1941 Daniel Pinkwater, born in Memphis, Tennessee, author, children's books, critic, commentator, National Public Radio, Weekend Edition Saturday 1934 Robert Stigwood, producer, Saturday Night Fever, Grease 1929 Severn Darden, actor, Luv, President's Analyst, Saturday the 14th 1927 Maxwell Anderson's "Saturday's Children," premieres in New York City 1916 Saturday Evening Post cover features Norman Rockwell painting 1914 Stewart Alsop, born in Avon, Connecticut, columnist and political analyst, worked for Saturday Evening Post and Newsweek 1912 Norman Cousins, editor, Saturday Review 1907 Bill Stern, born in Rochester, New York, sportscaster, Saturday Night Fights 1905 Clara Bow, silent screen actress, It, Saturday Night Kid 1902 Kermit Maynard, Vevey, Indiana, cowboy actor, Saturday Roundup 1872 Max Beerbohm, England, caricaturist/writer/wit, Saturday Review 1821 1st edition of Saturday Evening Post (publishes until 1969) |
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