John Logie Baird at the Science Museum in London, circa August 1926, with his "televisor".

On January 26, 1926, John Logie Baird, a Scottish inventor, 
gave the first public demonstration of a true TV system
in London, launching a revolution in communication and
entertainment. Baird’s invention, a pictorial-transmission
machine he called a “televisor,” used mechanical rotating
disks to scan moving images into electronic impulses.

This information was then transmitted by cable to a screen
where it showed up as a low-resolution pattern of light and
dark.  Baird’s first television program showed the heads of
two ventriloquist dummies, which he operated in front of the
camera apparatus out of view of the audience.

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This image is the first recorded picture taken from a TV
screen.

John Logie Baird  (1888 – 1946)

(1951 – 2022)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Louie Anderson, whose four-decade career
as a comedian and actor included his unlikely, Emmy-winning
performance as mom to twin adult sons in the TV series “Baskets,”
died Friday in a hospital in Las Vegas of complications from a form
of blood cancer. He was 68.

On January 4, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered the
first televised evening State of the Union Address.

Johnson laid out for Congress a laundry list of legislation needed
to achieve his plan for a Great Society.

As a result Congress enacted sweeping legislation in the areas of
civil rights, health care, education and the environment. 

The 1965 State of the Union address heralded the creation of Medicare/Medicaid, Head Start, the Voting Rights Act, the Civil
Rights Act, the Department of Housing and Urban Development
and the White House Conference on Natural Beauty.

President Lyndon Baines Johnson signs the Voting Rights
Act of 1965.

Betty Marion White Ludden
(January 17, 1922 – December 31, 2021)

WASHINGTON (TND) — Actress Betty White, star of "The Golden
Girls" and many other TV series and films, has died just weeks
before her 100th birthday.

According to TMZ, law enforcement sources say the 99-year-old
comedy legend passed away in her sleep at her home Friday
morning. She would have turned 100 on Jan. 17.

TV series on the Lifetime channel (1985 – 1992)

John Earl Madden (April 10, 1936 – December 28, 2021)

John Madden was a football coach and sportscaster. He served as
the head coach of the Oakland Raiders of the National Football
League (NFL) for 10 seasons, and helmed the team to a victory in
Super Bowl XI. After retiring from coaching, he became a well-
known color commentator for NFL Cause of death not known
at this time. He was at 85.