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
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)
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
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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