The show’s premiere was hosted by George Carlin on NBC on
October 11, 1975, under the original title NBC’s Saturday Night.

The topical comedy sketch show featuring Chevy Chase, John
Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, Garrett Morris, Jane Curtin
and Laraine Newman, made its debut on NBC.

The 90-minute program, which from its inception has been aired
live from Studio 8H at Rockefeller Center, included a different
guest host and musical act each week. The opening sketch of
each show ends with the saying… “Live from New York, It’s
Saturday Night.”
    
    
    
   

He already had a few TV credits to his name at the time, the
first being an episode of Armstrong Circle Theatre in 1959
on CBS, a 31- year – old Robert Duvall introduced himself
to many audiences in 1962 with a silent and inscrutable 
stare with his film debut as Boo Radley, the harmless
oddball neighbor in the Robert Mulligan-directed, Horton
Foote-written adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill a
Mockingbird.
 

 

Robert Selden Duvall will be 94 on January
5, 2025.

For the first time, Henry Ford’s entire Highland Park,
Michigan automobile factory is run on a continuously
moving assembly line when the chassis, the automobile’s
frame is assembled using the revolutionary industrial
technique.          

Within a year, further assembly line improvements reduced   
productivity effected by Ford’s use of the moving assembly
line allowed him to drastically reduce the cost of the Model T.

On October 2, 1965, during a football game between
the University of Florida Gators and the Louisiana
State University Tigers, UF players test a newly
concocted sports drink to help them regain the
essential chemicals their bodies lose from profuse
sweating.

Developed in their own school’s science labs, the
drink is designed to fight dehydration, rebalance
their bodies’ electrolytes and restore blood sugar,
potassium and body salts so they can continue to
perform at a high level through their games.

The Gators go on to win the match, after the heavily
favored Tigers wilt in Florida’s muggy, 102-degree
heat.

The drink, nicknamed "Gatorade," eventually became
a mass-market phenomenon and made its inventors
wealthy.

James Robert Cade (1927 – 2007)

Cade was a physician, university professor,
research scientist and inventor.

On October 1, 1962, Johnny Carson takes over from Jack Paar
as host of the late-night talk program The Tonight Show.

Carson went on to host The Tonight Show Starring Johnny
Carson for three decades, becoming one of the biggest
figures in entertainment in the 20th century.

The guests that night in NBC’s Studio 6B were Joan
Crawford (above), Mel Brooks, Tony Bennett and Rudy
Vallee.

Ed McMahon (left) and Johnny Carson.