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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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