On this day in 1959, In Melbourne Tonight aired for the first time on GTV9. Graham Kennedy sings a self-penned ditty '500 Times, 5 Nights A Week' commemorating the 500th edition of In Melbourne Tonight. The song broadly covers the history of the show and good-naturedly name-drops many of the key IMT regulars of the time: singers Dorothy Baker and Bill McCormack, 'Barrel Girl' Panda Lisner and comic actor Joff Ellen. Graham Kennedy was the 'The King' of Australian television, with a career that s

The Kennedy Family timeline : 1938: Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. appointed as U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom. 1960: John F. Kennedy elected as the 35th President of the United States. 1963: President John F. Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas. 1968: Robert F. Kennedy assassinated while running for president. 1980: Ted Kennedy runs for the Democratic presidential nomination but loses to Jimmy Carter. 1999: John F. Kennedy Jr. dies in a plane crash. 2009: Ted Kennedy dies of brain cancer. 2020: