The educational children’s television program Sesame Street debuted on this day, November 10, in 1969, and featured Jim Henson’s Muppets. Sesame Street would go on to win multiple awards: as of 2014, Sesame Street has won 167 Emmy Awards and 8 Grammy Awards, more than any other children’s show.

Jim Henson was photographed in 1990, and his portrait was published in American Legends.