Taking a look back on a few events that has taken place on April 6th in previous years.
1954 – The first TV Dinners were put out for sale. Several smaller companies had tried to market the prepared meals that would become coined as TV Dinners, but they all failed. The first company to successfully market these new frozen convenience meals was Swanson. The first TV Dinner meals to come onto the market consisted of turkey, cornbread dressing, peas and sweet potatoes.
1965 – The first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite was launched. The satellite was named Intelsat I, but was nicknamed Early Bird, and it was built by It was the Space and Communications Group of Hughes Aircraft Company. This important satellite was the first move towards live, on-air coverage of important events. The first major live event that the satellite broadcast coverage for was that of the splashdown of the Gemini 6 spacecraft on December 26, 1965.
1975 – After 45 performances, the musical “The Rocky Horror Show” closes its Broadway run at the Belasco Theater in NYC. Later that same year in August, the film adaptation of the show, “The Rocky Horror Picture” Show, is released by 20th Century Fox.
1980 – After a year of consumer testing in a select market, the familiar Post-It Notes were released for sale on this date nationally across America. A year later, the product was introduced to the Canadian and European markets. Originally, the notepads all had lines and were only available in yellow.
1998 – Well-known country music singer and song-writer, Virginia Wynette Pugh, better known by her professional stage name, Tammy Wynette, passed away on this date in her sleep at her Nashville home at the age of 55. It was later released that she had died from a blood clot in her lung. Wynette was called “The First Lady of Country Music” and is best known by her 1968 number one hit song that she co-wrote, “Stand by Your Man.”
What a great post idea! Its nice to look back on things. I have always disliked TV dinners lol. So interesting
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Great post. Never stumbled upon this type of posts. I love notes from all of this for sure. Thanks for posting an informative post. 🙂
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I love posts like these, that bring us to the past! Very interesting finds!
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The only two things I can relate to are the stick it notes, and one thing not mentioned. This day today is also the day I came across your blog. 🙂
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I love looking back on history, it’s always been something that intrigues me. I can’t believe people ate those TV dinners, I wonder if they tasted good? Ps, Rocky Horror show is one of my favourites!
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Considering that TV Dinners are still around 62 years later, I guess that those first dinners must have tasted “good enough!” 😉
I really like Rocky Horror, too! So, when I came across it during my research I knew that I HAD to include it in my list! 🙂
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Looking back on history is always so interesting! I didn’t know Post-It Notes were released in 1980! Good to know that! Thank you for sharing such a great post!
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Pretty cool! My daughter was born April 6th so it’s cool to see other things that happened on her birthday.
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I have seen a documentary on the tv diner meals and to be honest, they looked disgusting. I don’t really know how they succeeded, I would have never bought anything like that, haha.
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I agree that it IS amazing how some items actually make it and become successful. I do not eat TV Dinners, but I do remember eating them occasionally when I was younger. Then again, back then the food was most likely much healthier and not full of so many preservatives and fillers like they are today.
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I have fond memories of TV dinners!! (Not the packaged kind though..) Of course they’re not that great for the family but I still loved them as my favourite show was always on at dinner time!
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interesting post! guess a lot od research has gone behind this! so much of interesting info! The tv dinner one especially!
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Very interesting – Thank you for sharing all of this!!
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I love all things nostalgic! This is one of my favorite types of posts, if you continue them, I’m sure to be back!
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I have done several “This Day in History” posts and they always seem to get a very positive reaction. I do plan on getting them up more regularly. I am glad to see that you like this type of information, Trish!
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so interesting. I never knew about those TV dinners. Turkey it is.
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Love looking back at what has happened on certain days in history! Thank you for sharing.
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Very interesting post. I didn’t know any about any of them. This was a very informative post for me, thanks for sharing.
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I have never seen the Rocky Horror Picture show. I have wanted to do that one day.
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Post its have only been around for 36 years? Doesn’t seem that long until I start thinking how close in age I am to it and then I realize that is a long time. LOL
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Wow, its funny how some of these things like post it notes seem to have been around forever. In reality it hasnt been that long!
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Having the first TV dinners in the 1950’s kind of makes sense because it was the midway point between Modernism and Post-Modernism so the perceptions of reality and time changed.
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What an informative post an amazing idea. I always think if something big happened in history this day. I really enjoyed this i hope you write more like this. 🙂
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