On January 17, 1966, the National Broadcasting Corporation
ordered 32 episodes of a new TV show, "The Monkees," for
its upcoming fall schedule. Little did producers know that the
fake pop music band they were launching would become an
actual pop culture sensation—whose records would even
outsell the Beatles. The sitcom aired from 1966 to 1968.
On January 17, 1953, a prototype Chevrolet Corvette sports car
made its debut at General Motors’ (GM) Motorama auto show at
the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. The Corvette, named
for a fast type of naval warship, would eventually become an
iconic American muscle car and remains in production today.
2024 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray 1LT Coupe.
Green Bay QB and game MVP Bart Starr, Super Bowl I, 1967.
As NBC and CBS had held the rights to nationally televise
AFL and NFL games, respectively, it was decided that both networks were allowed to broadcast the game.
Kansas City QB Len Dawson.
The oil tycoon Blake Carrington (John Forsythe) prepares to
marry his former secretary, the beautiful and innocent Krystle
(Linda Evans), in the three-hour television movie that kicks
off the prime-time ABC soap opera Dynasty on January 12,
1981.
Freeman Gosden (‘Amos’) and Charles Correll (‘Andy’)
On January 12, 1926, the two-man comedy series “Sam ‘n’ Henry”
debuts on Chicago’s WGN radio station. Two years later, after
changing its name to “Amos ‘n’ Andy,” the show becomes one
of the most popular radio programs in American history.
Gosden and Carrell, both vaudeville performers, were doing a
Chicago comedy act in blackface when an employee at the
Chicago Tribune suggested they create a radio show.
