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The year 1930 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in 1930.

Contents 1 Global television events 2 Births 3 References

[edit] Global television events

• May 22 - An audience at Proctor's Theatre in Schenectady, New York becomes the first to see a closed-circuit television signal projected onto a big screen.
• July 14 - For the first time in the United Kingdom, a television drama is broadcast. The drama is a production of Luigi Pirandello's The Man With the Flower in His Mouth; it is broadcast by the BBC from Baird's studios at 133 Long Acre, London.^[1]

• November 5 - Baird television transmissions at Hairdressing Fair of Fashion include the world's first television commercial for the Eugène Method of permanent hair waving.
• December 7 - W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts airs the first television commercial in the United States, of I.J Fox Furriers during The Fox Trappers.

[edit] Births

Month	Day	Name	Occupation/Accolades
January	03	Robert Loggia	U.S. actor
	04	Sorrell Booke	U.S. actor (d. 1994)
	06	Vic Tayback	U.S. actor (d. 1990)
February	08	Alejandro Rey	Argentinian-born actor (d. 1987)
	10	Robert Wagner	U.S. actor
	28	Gavin MacLeod	U.S. actor
March	30	John Astin	U.S. actor
April	19	Dick Sargent	U.S. actor (d. 1994)
	25	Lynn Hamilton	U.S. actress
	28	Carolyn Jones	U.S. actress (d. 1983)
May	31	Clint Eastwood	U.S. actor
June	12	Jim Nabors	U.S. actor
July	14	Polly Bergen	U.S. actress
	17	Ray Galton	British writer
August	16	Robert Culp	U.S. actor
	16	Frank Gifford	U.S. sports announcer
	25	Graham Jarvis	U.S. actor (d. 2003)
	28	Ben Gazzara	U.S. actor
September	11	Cathryn Damon	U.S. actress (d. 1987)
	16	Anne Francis	U.S. actress
November	15	Whitman Mayo	U.S. actor (d. 2001)
December	4	Ronnie Corbett	British comedian
	9	Buck Henry	U.S. writer
	21	Phil Roman	U.S. animator

[edit] References

Years in television: 1930
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