Nickelodeon

Nickipedia 2023 logo Nickipedia, the Nickelodeon Wiki
Welcome to Nickipedia, a Nickelodeon database that anyone can edit. Since April 28, 2005!

READ MORE

Nickelodeon
Register
Advertisement
Nickelodeon

The following is a list of events relevant to Nickelodeon that happened before the channel's official launch in 1979.

1911

1914

1915

1916

1917

1919

1920

1921

1922

1923

1924

1925

1926

1927

1928

1929

1930

1931

1932

1933

1934

1935

  • April 4: Kenneth Mars (voice actor on The Angry Beavers) is born
  • September 21: Henry Gibson (voice actor on Rocket Power, The Wild Thornberrys, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, Hey Arnold!, and All Grown Up!) is born
  • December 30: Jack Riley (voice actor on Rugrats and All Grown Up!, and actor of Mr. O'Reilly on The Secret World of Alex Mack) is born

1936

1937

1938

1939

1940

1941

1942

1943

1944

1945

1946

1947

1948

1949

1950

1951

1952

1953

1954

1955

1956

1957

  • January 11: Herb Scannell (president of Nickelodeon from 1996-2006) is born
  • March 6: Eddie Deezen (voice actor on SpongeBob SquarePants) is born
  • March 23: Teresa Ganzel (voice actor on Rugrats and Aaahh!!! Real Monsters) is born
  • October 4: Bill Fagerbakke (voice actor on SpongeBob SquarePants) is born
  • October 24: John Kassir (voice actor on Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, CatDog, The Wild Thornberrys, Oh Yeah! Cartoons, Rocket Power, The Amanda Show, As Told by Ginger, My Life as a Teenage Robot, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Back at the Barnyard, Tak and the Power of Juju, Random! Cartoons, Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Breadwinners, and It's Pony) is born
  • October 25: Nancy Cartwright (voice actor on Rugrats) is born
  • October 29: Dan Castellaneta (voice actor on Rugrats, Hey Arnold!, As Told by Ginger, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, and My Life as a Teenage Robot) is born
  • November 3: Dolph Lundgren (guest star on Sanjay and Craig) is born
  • November 6: Cam Clarke (voice actor on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) is born
  • December 10: Michael Clarke Duncan (voice actor on The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius and The Fairly OddParents) is born
  • December 13: Steve Buscemi (actor on The Adventures of Pete and Pete, and voice actor in Charlotte's Web and SpongeBob SquarePants) is born

1958

1959

1960

1961

1962

1963

1964

1965

1966

1967

1968

1969

1970

1971

1972

1973

1974

1975

1976

1977

Pinwheel-title-card-purple-sand
  • January 21: Jerry Trainor (actor on iCarly and host of Tooned In) is born
  • February 2: Shakira is born
  • March 14: Katie Matilla (writer on The Loud House, Avatar the Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, 100 Things to Do Before High School, and Harvey Beaks) is born
  • March 15: Brian Tee is born
  • April 10: Stephanie Sheh is born
  • April 23: Kal Penn (voice actor on Sanjay and Craig and It's Pony, and actor and singer on Blue's Clues & You!) is born
  • May 3: Jeffrey Garcia (voice actor on Back at the Barnyard and The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius) is born
  • May 19: Kelly Sheridan is born
  • June 1: Danielle Harris is born
  • June 3: Heidi Lucas is born
  • July 13: Kari Wahlgren (actress and voice actress on Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, Breadwinners, Bunsen is a Beast, The Fairly OddParents, Tak and the Power of JuJu, The Penguins of Madagascar, Random! Cartoons, Back at the Barnyard, Robot and Monster, Winx Club, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Monsters VS Aliens, Bubble Guppies, Harvey Beaks, Pig, Goat, Banana, Cricket, The Casagrandes, The Adventures of Kid Danger, and The Loud House) is born
  • July 27: Jason Zimbler is born
  • September 26: Sirena Irwin is born
  • September 27: Michael C. Maronna is born
  • December 1: Pinwheel premieres on Channel C-3 of QUBE, an experimental local cable system in Ohio. Channel C-3 and Pinwheel would later move to national television in April 1979, when Nickelodeon was officially launched.

1978

  • March 1: Donovan Patton (actor on Blue's Clues and Blue's Clues & You!, and voice actor on Team Umizoomi) is born
  • May 10: Kenan Thompson (actor on All That, Kenan & Kel, and Good Burger, panelist on Figure It Out, host on Oh Yeah! Cartoons, guest star on The Amanda Show, Cousin Skeeter, and iCarly, voice actor on The Mighty B! and Wonder Park, presented on the 2007 Kids' Choice Awards, executive producer on All That and host of the 2021 Kids' Choice Awards) is born
  • June 9: Brian Patrick Wade (actor in A Loud House Christmas) is born
  • June 18: Tara Platt is born
  • August 9: Brad Breeck (composer on Robot and Monster, Fanboy and Chum Chum, and Glitch Techs) is born
  • August 23: Kobe Bryant (guest star on All That) is born
  • August 25: Kel Mitchell (actor on All That and Kenan and Kel) is born
  • October 7: Omar Benson Miller (voice actor on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Rugrats (2021)) is born
  • October 20: Dionne Quan (voice actress on Rugrats and The Fairly OddParents) is born
  • November 19: Chad Doreck (voice actor on My Life as a Teenage Robot) is born
Timeline 1979 >>
Advertisement