The first Emmy Awards ceremony was held on January 25, 1949
at the Hollywood Athletic Club.

The awards recognize excellence in television (which in the
1940s was a novel medium).

Hollywood’s first television academy had been founded three
years earlier by Sydney Cassyd, a former film editor for Frank
Capra who later worked as a grip at Paramount Studios and
an entertainment journalist.

Sydney Cassyd (1908 – 2000) 

       

On January 16, 1942, the actress Carole Lombard, famous for her
roles in such screwball comedies as My Man Godfrey and To Be
or Not to Be, and for her marriage to the actor Clark Gable, was
killed when the TWA DC-3 plane she is traveling in crashed en - 
route from Las Vegas to Los Angeles. She was only 33.

Doug Scroggins of Las Vegas spent years documenting the crash
site on Mount Potosi which is 35 miles southwest of Las Vegas.

Scroggins said "Flight 3 crashed near the 8,300-foot level of Mount Potosi with flaps retracted, and the plane in level flight. Something happened inside that cockpit and happened so fast that the pilot
could not react.”

Clark Gable and Carole Lombard.

1939

A TWA DC-3, similar to the accident aircraft.

Leslie Charleson, known for her role on "General Hospital,"
died Sunday morning after a long illness. She was 79.

The Daytime Emmy-nominated actress portrayed Monica
Quartermaine on the soap opera for nearly 50 years.

Ron Howard and Leslie Charleson in “Happy
Days” TV show.

All in the Family is an sitcom television series that aired 
on CBS for nine seasons from January 12, 1971, to April
8, 1979, with a total of 205 episodes.

All in the Family has been ranked as one of the best TV
series. The show became the most watched show in the
U.S.during the summer reruns of the first season, and
topped the yearly Nielsen ratings from 1971 to 1976, the
first television series to have held the position for five
consecutive years.

1971

Sally Anne Struthers (77) was born in Portland, Oregon.

Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jeane Mortenson)
(June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962)