The 25th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Roddy McDowall (Planet Of The Apes) and Susan Oliver (Star Trek) star in Serling’s adaptation of a Paul Fairman short story.
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Future Red Dwarf cast member Chris Barrie is born in West Germany to British parents. Developing a knack for vocal impersonations at an early age, Barrie aims for a comedy career after dropping out of college and quickly becomes a frequent guest actor on television (The Young Ones,
The 25th episode of the science fiction drama series Men Into Space airs on CBS, starring William Lundigan.
The very first weather satellite, TIROS-1, is launched by the United States. Built under contract by RCA, the nearly-300-pound satellite’s black & white cameras offer the first view of Earth’s cloud systems and weather patterns from orbit. Tiros-1 remains operational for just 78 days, but proves the viability of relying on satellites for weather observation and forceasting.
ABC airs the 50th episode of the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland. John Hudson guest stars.
At the Hughes Research Laboratory in California, physicist Ted Maiman conducts the first completely successful laser demonstration, resulting in a brief pulse fired through a ruby. Though the concept of lasers had been published in the 1950s, Maiman is the first to develop a fully working test article. Within a few years, similar ruby lasers are used for numerous military applications, as well as early holography. Maiman’s test laser, when demonstrated again at a conference in 2010, is still operational.