1930 in television

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The year 1930 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in 1930.

Global television events

• May 22 – An audience at Proctor's Theatre in Schenectady, New York becomes the first to see a closed-circuit television signal projected onto a big screen.
• July 14 – For the first time in the United Kingdom, a television drama is broadcast. The drama is a production of Luigi Pirandello's The Man With the Flower in His Mouth; it is broadcast by the BBC from Baird's studios at 133 Long Acre, London.
• November 5 – Baird television transmissions at Hairdressing Fair of Fashion include the world's first television commercial for the Eugène Method of permanent hair waving.
• December 7 – W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts broadcasts the first television commercial in the United States, of I.J Fox Furriers during The Fox Trappers.

Births

Month	Day	Name	Occupation/Accolades
January	03	Robert Loggia	U.S. actor
	04	Sorrell Booke	U.S. actor (died 1994)
	06	Vic Tayback	U.S. actor (died 1990)
February	08	Alejandro Rey	Argentinian-born actor (died 1987)
	10	Robert Wagner	U.S. actor
	28	Gavin MacLeod
March	30	John Astin
April	19	Dick Sargent	U.S. actor (died 1994)
	25	Lynn Hamilton	U.S. actress
	28	Carolyn Jones	U.S. actress (died 1983)
May	10	Pat Summerall	American football player and sportscaster (d. 2013)
	31	Clint Eastwood	U.S. actor
June	12	Jim Nabors	Actor, singer
July	14	Polly Bergen	U.S. actress
	17	Ray Galton	British writer
August	16	Frank Gifford	U.S. sports announcer (died 2015)
		Robert Culp	U.S. actor (died 2010)
	25	Graham Jarvis	U.S. actor (died 2003)
	28	Ben Gazzara	U.S. actor (died 2012)
September	11	Cathryn Damon	U.S. actress (died 1987)
	16	Anne Francis	U.S. actress (died 2011)
November	15	Whitman Mayo	U.S. actor (died 2001)
December	4	Ronnie Corbett	British comedian
	9	Buck Henry	U.S. writer
	21	Phil Roman	U.S. animator