One significant thing about the election of 1960 was that the first catholic president was elected. Another thing was that it combined the southern and northern democrats much more effectively than had been done in the previous two elections, an act that may have helped pave the way to civil rights legislation.
The first televised sport in the us is baseball
Dolph Camilli hit the first ever televised home run as the Dodgers beat the Reds 6-1.
The first televised Olympics were in Berlin in 1936.
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The first known telecast of Nascar was in 1960 and it was the Daytona 500 race.
Yes. However, part of the New York area was blacked out because the game didn't sell out. But, officially, you could say it was the first nationally televised game; though not the first televised.
I think it was the 1972 Daytona 500. One of the 500's was the first fully televised race.
It would take until 1953 before the first nationally televised golf tournament. It was the Tam O'Shanter World Championship, played just outside Chicago and televised by ABC. But get this - the owner of the club paid ABC to televise the tournament! The US Open tournament was televised nationally, across the U.S., for the first time in 1954. In 1977, all 18 holes of each of the final two rounds were broadcast live for the first time. And in 1982, all four rounds were televised for the first time.
Regional television broadcasts began in 1952, and the championship game was televised nationally for the first time in 1954.
Kyle Petty has finished first in eight Nascar Cup Series races in his career.
Jeff Gordon's best Nascar finish is first. He won 84 races and four championships.
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Tony Stewart's first Nascar Cup Series race was the 1999 Daytona 500. He finished in 28th position.
The World Cup was first televised in 1954.
The 1956 Tony Awards were the first to be televised.