The October 28, 1956, he was born the tv Spain in a building, now closed, located in madrid, Paseo de La Habana. Gabriel Arias-Salgado, minister of Information and Tourism, was on hand to inaugurate the first issue of TVE. He did so by repeating his speech until in three occasions due to the nerves of the cameras that were not able to shoot well your intervention. The dictator Franco did not want to go to the first set because he did not trust too much in that “box” were to one day have success.

Who were at that time with a tv in their homes were extremely privileged. The speech of Arias Salgado, in fact, could only be followed by the 600 television sets in Madrid. And is that the price of this appliance was prohibitive: each drive to cost about 30,000 pesetas on average, a real fortune for the time. The sixtieth birthday of television in Spain may be held for sixty moments, unique and unrepeatable as that we have selected.

The first moments (1956)

The assassination of Kennedy (1963)

The family Telerín (1964)

Carmen Sevilla and Philips (1965)

pump Palomares (1966)

Catalan in TVE with Serrat (1968)

Martin Luther King killed (1968)

Massiel gana Eurovisión (1968)

the arrival of The man on the Moon (1969)

Second victory in the Eurovision song contest (1969)

Spaniards, Franco is dead (1975)

A dictator dead, king (1975)

The man and the earth (1977)

The first elections (1977)

The return of Tarradellas (1977)

The referendum on the Constitution (1978)

for The first time Mechano (1979)

How are you? (1979)

The resignation of Adolfo Suárez (1981)

The coup of 23F (1981)

The world of football (1982)

Famous, Playmobil, Mortadelo y Filemón (1982)

The first absolute majority of Felipe González (1982)

Finished Summer blue (1982)

Sesame street (1983)

The 12-1 of the Spain-Malta (1983)

The implementation of Nasarre (1983)

The bata de cola (1984)

Spain enters in Europe (1986)

One, two, three… answer again (1986)

Tuesday and thirteen, the dumplings (1986)

millennialism going to get (1989)

The fall of the Berlin wall (1989)

The chimes failed (1989)

The Olympic Games of Barcelona (1992)

The death of Escobar and the mention of the internet (1993)

The interview on the GAL (1995)

The victory of Aznar (1996)

The Grand Prix of summer (1996)

The olympic gold Indurain (1996)

ETA murdered Miguel Angel Blanco (1997)

The accident of Lady Di (1997)

What we believe (1998)

The arrest of Pinochet (1998)

The first Davis Cup (2000)

The attacks of 11-S (2001)

First episode of Cuéntame (2001)

Goodbye penny, hello euro (2002)

The final of operación Triunfo (2002)

Urdaci and CCOO (2002)

Europe’s living a celebration (2002)

prince Felipe marries Letizia (2003)

The attacks of 11M (2004)

ZP president (2004)

I have a question for you (2007)

The girl Rajoy (2008)

Obama, US president (2009)

The 15M movement (2011)

59 seconds (2011)

The Brexit (2016)