Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen
(December 26, 1921 – October 30, 2000
Television and radio personality, comedian,
musician, composer, writer and actor.
Steve Allen, in 1954 achieved national fame
as the co-creator and first host of The Tonight
Show, which was the first late-night television
talk show.
Allen died in his sleep from chest trauma caused
by injuries sustained in an earlier traffic accident.
Ulysses S. Grant (April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885)
On July 23, 1885, just after completing his memoirs, Civil War hero
and former president Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer. He
served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877.
General Grant reading in a colorized photo. Grant was
appointed General of the Army (4 Stars) after the Civil
War on July 25, 1866.
Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx
(October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977)
CARLATA BRADLEY
President George W. Bush signs the Patriot Act, Anti-Terrorism Legislation, in the East Room on this day in 2001.
U.S. National security adviser Henry Kissinger declared, "Peace is at
hand" in Vietnam on this day in 1972.
The "Gunfight at the OK Corral" took place in Tombstone, AZ. on this day in
1881. The fight was between Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and Doc Holiday
and the Ike Clanton Gang.
Quiz Kids was a radio and TV series of the 1940s and 1950’s created by
Chicago public relations and advertising man Louis G. Cowan, and
originally sponsored by Alka-Seltzer. The series was first broadcast
on NBC from Chicago, June 28, 1940, airing as a summer replacement
show for Alec Templeton Time. It continued on radio for the next 13
years. On television, the show was seen on NBC and CBS from July
6, 1949 to July 5, 1953, with Joe Kelly as quizmaster, and again from
January 12 to September 27, 1956, with Clifton Fadiman as host.
Quizmaster Joe Kelly.
Ted Weems and his orchestra, with Perry Como, Marilyn (Marvel)
Maxwell and Elmo Tanner, 1940.
Beat the Band was a musical quiz show heard on NBC radio from 1940 to
1944 in two distinctly different series. The program popularized the catch
phrase, "Give me a little traveling music”.
In the first series, broadcast on Sundays at 6:30pm from Chicago, host
Garry Moore read music-related questions submitted by listeners to band
members in the 14-piece Ted Weems Orchestra. Originally sponsored by
the General Mills cereal Kix, listeners whose questions were used on the
air received $10; those who stumped the band received $20 and a case
of Kix.
Garry Moore (born Thomas Garrison Morfit, III)
(January 31, 1915 – November 28, 1993)
Kix cereal was introduced in 1937 by the General Mills company
of Golden Valley, Minnesota.
