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January 31, 1949

On January 31, 1949, these Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera, is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago, United States. Spencer Haywood, Tommy Mottola, Holly Near would arrive in the same year.

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Featured · January 31, 1949

These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera, is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago, United States.

These Are My Children is an American television soap opera, or novella, that ran on NBC from January 31 to March 4, 1949. m. EST.

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1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1949th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 949th year of the 2nd millennium, the 49th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1940s decade.

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On January 31, 1949

  1. 1949 These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera, is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago, United States.

    1949 American soap opera, considered the first to be broadcast on television

    These Are My Children is an American television soap opera, or novella, that ran on NBC from January 31 to March 4, 1949. m. EST.

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Spencer Haywood 1949– American basketball player
Tommy Mottola 1949– American businessman and music publisher
Holly Near 1949– American folk singer and songwriter
Emanuel Ax 1949– Polish-American pianist and educator
Hildegard Falck 1949– German runner
Billy Joel 1949– American singer-songwriter and pianist

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