12 March 1966: Jimmy Hannan (Jimmy)
12 March 1969: Ty Hardin (Riptide)
12 March 1994: Lisa Lackey (Home And Away)
12 March 1976: Bert Newton hosts the 18th annual TV Week Logie Awards from the Southern Cross Hotel, Melbourne. Norman Gunston (Garry McDonald) and Denise Drysdale (The Ernie Sigley Show) win the Gold Logies for most popular personalities on television.
12 March 1979: ABC launches drama series The Oracle, starring John Gregg (pictured), Pamela Gibbons, Julie Hamilton and Danny Adcock.
12 March 1982: Bert Newton hosts the 24th annual TV Week Logie Awards from the Hilton Hotel, Melbourne. Newton (host of New Faces and Don Lane‘s sidekick on The Don Lane Show) went on to win the Gold Logie for most popular personality.
12 March 1990: ABC launches a new series, The Party Machine, featuring Andrew Denton as he takes an in-depth look at the upcoming Federal Election.
12 March 1995: The ABC special On Track profiles Australia’s hopefuls for the 2000 Olympic Games, including Cathy Freeman, Melinda Gainsford, Kyle Vander-Kup, Tim Forsyth, Alison Inverarity and Brenda Hanigan.
12 March 2005: Roy and HG (John Doyle and Greig Pickhaver) launch their new comedy series, The Memphis Trousers Half Hour on ABC. The show is named after an incident in which former Australian prime minister Malcolm Fraser lost his trousers in a Memphis hotel.
