Editing 1927 in television

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The year '''1927 in television''' involved some significant events.
Below is a list of [[television]]-related events during 1927.
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==Global television events==
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| January || 07 || [[Philo Farnsworth]] applies for an [[image dissector|image dissector tube]] patent, which used [[caesium]] to produce images electronically.<ref name="Burns">{{cite book| title = Television: An International History of the Formative Years| last = Burns|first= R. W. | publisher = [[Institute of Electrical Engineers]] (History of Technology Series 22) in association with the [[Science Museum, London|Science Museum]] (UK) | year = 1998 | isbn = 978-0-85296-914-4 | pages = 358–361 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=gZcwhVyiMqsC&dq=Dieckmann+Hell+image-dissector-tube+aperture+Farnsworth&pg=PA358 }}</ref><ref name=US1773980>[https://patents.google.com/patent/US1773980 Farnsworth, Philo T., ''Television System'']. Patent No. 1,773,980, U. S. Patent Office, filed 1927-01-07, issued 1930-04-26. Retrieved 2010-03-12.</ref>
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| April || 07 || [[Bell Labs|Bell Telephone Company]] transmits a speech by [[United States Secretary of Commerce|U.S. Secretary of Commerce]] [[Herbert Hoover]] 320&nbsp;kilometers over telephone lines, which becomes the first successful long distance demonstration of television. Experimental station [[3XN]] in [[Whippany, New Jersey|Whippany]], New Jersey is used to transmit 1,575&nbsp;[[kilohertz|kHz]] video and 1,450&nbsp;kHz radio. The system uses a [[flying-spot scanner]], and is seen on [[Nipkow disc]] receivers with two-inch, 50-line images, and on a two-foot neon tube display. It was developed by [[Herbert Ives|Herbert E. Ives]] and [[Frank Gray (researcher)|Frank Gray]]. Edna Mae Horner, an operator at the [[Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company]], assisted the transmission and became the first woman on television; she helped guests in Washington, D.C., exchange greetings with the audience in New York.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2011-03-20 |title=History of AT&T Television&#058; First Woman on U.S. Television{{!}} History |url=http://www.corp.att.com/history/television/horner.html |access-date=2024-05-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110320212830/http://www.corp.att.com/history/television/horner.html |archive-date=March 20, 2011 }}</ref> Throughout the presentation, viewers in New York could see and hear Edna.<ref name=":0" />
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|      23 || The first demonstration of television before a large audience. Nearly 600&nbsp;members of the [[American Institute of Electrical Engineers]] and the [[Institute of Radio Engineers]] view the demonstration at the [[Bell Telephone Laboratories|Bell Telephone Building]] in New York City.
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|      24 || [[John Logie Baird]] transmits a television signal from London to [[Glasgow]] by telephone line.
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" |September
|      07 || Philo Farnsworth achieves an experimental electronic television image, of a straight line, at his laboratory at 202 Green Street in San Francisco.<ref>[http://www.farnovision.com/media/first_picture.html Farnsworth first electronic video image] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120805001929/http://www.farnovision.com/media/first_picture.html |date=August 5, 2012 }}.</ref>
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|      20 || John Logie Baird demonstrates the first ever system for recording television. His [[Baird Phonovision VideoDisc Apparatus|Phonovision VideoDisc apparatus]] records 30-line television pictures and sound on conventional 78&nbsp;[[revolutions per minute|rpm]] [[phonograph|gramophone]] records.
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==Births==
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| January 3 || [[William Boyett]] || U.S. actor (''[[Adam-12]]'')  (died 2004)
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| January 17 || [[Eartha Kitt]] || U.S. actress and singer (died 2008)
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| January 19 || [[Nancy Dickerson Whitehead]] || U.S. radio and television journalist (died 1997)
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| January 27 || [[Jerry Haynes]] || U.S. actor ("Mr Peppermint") (died 2011)
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| rowspan="2"| February 15 || [[Carlos Romero (actor)|Carlos Romero]] || U.S. actor (died 2007)
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| [[Harvey Korman]] || U.S. actor and comedian (''[[The Carol Burnett Show]]'') (died 2008)
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| February 16 || [[June Brown]] || English actress (''[[EastEnders]]'') (died 2022)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Whitmore |first1=Greg |title=June Brown: a life in pictures |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/gallery/2022/apr/04/june-brown-a-life-in-pictures |website=The Guardian |access-date=4 April 2022 |date=4 April 2022}}</ref>
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| March 5 || [[Jack Cassidy]] || U.S. actor (died 1976)
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| March 31 || [[William Daniels]] || U.S. actor (''[[Knight Rider (1982 TV series)|Knight Rider]]'', ''[[St. Elsewhere]]'', ''[[Boy Meets World]]'')
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| April 1 || [[Peter Cundall]] || Australian horticulturist and presenter (''[[Gardening Australia]]'') (died 2021)
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| May 4 || [[Terry Scott]] || English actor and comedian (died 1994)
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| May 5 || [[Pat Carroll (actress)|Pat Carroll]] || U.S. actress (died 2022)
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| May 11 || [[Bernard Fox (actor)|Bernard Fox]] || Welsh-U.S. actor (''[[Hogan's Heroes]]'', ''[[Bewitched]]'') (died 2016)
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| May 17 || [[Marilyn Hall]] || Canadian-born American television producer (died 2017)
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| May 22 || [[Michael Constantine]] || U.S. actor (''[[Room 222]]'') (died 2021)
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| May 30 || [[Clint Walker]] || U.S. actor and singer (''[[Cheyenne (1955 TV series)|Cheyenne]]'') (died 2018)
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| June 4 || [[Geoffrey Palmer (actor)|Geoffrey Palmer]] || English actor (''[[As Time Goes By (TV series)|As Time Goes By]]'') (died 2020)
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| June 7 || [[Mária Kráľovičová]] || Slovak actress (''Do videnia, Lucienne!'') (died 2022)
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| June 8 || [[Jerry Stiller]] || U.S. comedian and actor ([[Stiller and Meara]], ''[[Seinfeld]]'') (died 2020)
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| June 27 || [[Cino Tortorella]] || Italian presenter (''[[Zecchino d'Oro]]'') (died 2017)
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| July 4 || [[Neil Simon]] || U.S. writer, playwright, and author (''[[Your Show of Shows]]'', ''[[The Phil Silvers Show]]'', ''[[The Odd Couple (1970 TV series)|The Odd Couple]]'') (died 2018)
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| July 7 || [[Doc Severinsen]] || U.S. bandleader (''[[The Tonight Show]]'')
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| August 18 || [[Rosalynn Carter]] || 39th [[First Lady of the United States]] (died 2023)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brianna Herlihy |first=Greg Wehner |date=2023-11-17 |title=Former first lady Rosalynn Carter dead at 96 |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-first-lady-rosalynn-carter-dead |access-date=2024-09-01 |website=Fox News |language=en-US}}</ref>
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| August 30 || [[Bill Daily]] || U.S. actor and comedian (''[[I Dream of Jeannie]]'', ''[[The Bob Newhart Show]]'') (died 2018)
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| September 16 || [[Peter Falk]] || U.S. actor (''[[Columbo (TV series)|Columbo]]'') (died 2011)
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| September 29 || [[Cid Moreira]] || Brazilian journalist and presenter
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| October 1 || [[Tom Bosley]] || U.S. actor (''[[Happy Days]]'', ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]'') (died 2010)
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| October 14 || [[Roger Moore]] || English actor (''[[The Saint (TV series)|The Saint]]'') (died 2017)
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| October 16 || [[Eileen Ryan]] || Actress (died 2022)
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| November 3 || [[Peggy McCay]] || U.S. actress (''[[Days of Our Lives]]'') (died 2018)
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| November 20 || [[Estelle Parsons]] || U.S. actress (''[[Roseanne]]'')
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| November 28 || [[Chuck Mitchell]] || U.S. actor (died 1992)
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| November 29 || [[Vin Scully]] || U.S. sportscaster (died 2022)
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| November 30 || [[Robert Guillaume]] || U.S. actor (''[[Soap (TV series)|Soap]]'', ''[[Benson (TV series)|Benson]]'', ''[[Sports Night]]'') (died 2017)
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==References==
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