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The first Addams Family television adaptation premieres
On September 18, 1964, the first television adaptation of Charles Addams’s “The Addams Family” premiered on ABC Television.
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1964
The first television adaptation of Charles Addams’s “The Addams Family” premieres on ABC Television.
The 1964 premiere brought the first television adaptation of Charles Addams’s “The Addams Family” to ABC Television.
On September 18, 1964, the first television adaptation of Charles Addams’s “The Addams Family” premiered on ABC Television.
The series adapted Charles Addams’s macabre cartoon household for live-action television, presenting the family in a weekly half-hour sitcom.
The following year, NBC premiered Mel Brooks and Buck Henry’s spy comedy “Get Smart”; in 2006, The CW Television Network debuted after the merger of UPN and The WB.
The full record
8 entries from the day’s archive, filed year by year with a note on what each one leaves behind.
Cannabis is legalized in South Africa, through a ruling of the Constitutional Court.
The change came through a ruling by South Africa’s Constitutional Court.
Law
The 2016 attack in Uri in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, carried out by the militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed, results in the deaths of nineteen Indian Army soldiers and all four attackers.
Nineteen Indian Army soldiers and all four attackers were killed.
Violence
Two security personnel, 17 worshippers in a mosque, and 13 militants are killed during a Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan attack on a Pakistan Air Force base on the outskirts of Peshawar.
The reported toll was two security personnel, 17 mosque worshippers, and 13 militants.
Violence
A VIA Rail train crashes into a double-decker bus at a train station in Ottawa, Canada, killing six people and injuring 35 others.
Six people were killed and 35 others were injured in the Ottawa collision.
Disaster
The CW Television Network debuts in the US, following the merger of UPN and The WB.
The network debuted after the merger of UPN and The WB.
Television
Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
Kittinger completed the first solo Atlantic crossing by balloon.
Aviation
Mel Brooks and Buck Henry's spy-comedy series Get Smart premieres on NBC Television.
The spy comedy by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry premiered on NBC Television.
Television
The first television adaptation of Charles Addams's "The Addams Family" premieres on ABC Television.
The first television adaptation premiered on ABC Television.
Television