What can happen during one's lifetime? If you were Strom Thurmond, quite a lot. Today, South Carolina will celebrate the life of this legendary figure with a funeral at Columbia's First Baptist Church and then burial in Thurmond's hometown of Edgefield. Television will be there to cover it all.

The 100-year-old Thurmond, the longest-serving U.S. senator in history, died at 9:45 p.m. last Thursday in Edgefield. Born several months before the Wright brothers' historic flight at Kitty Hawk, Thurmond was witness to a parade of incredible changes, technologically and socially. Think of it: He saw the birth of movies, radio, television and computers. He was around to celebrate both Lindbergh's flight to Paris and Neil Armstrong's first step on the moon. He saw a segregated order change through the years, highlighted by Jackie Robinson's entry into baseball, Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech and the Voting Rights Act. A onetime segregationist, Thurmond himself evolved as the 1970s dawned. Why did he change? Does it really matter as long as he realized it was something he should do? Noon, WIS-10, cable ch. 3; WLTX-19, cable ch. 9; WOLO-25, cable ch. 5; ETV digital ch. 801

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"Pumping Iron": Featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger in his pre-action star days as a contestant in the Mr. Universe and Mr. Olympia contests, this 1977 documentary shows the training and diligence needed to attain the prize-winning bodies on display. Lou Ferrigno, TV's "Incredible Hulk, stars as Schwarzenegger's main competitor. 5:30 p.m., Cinemax, cable ch. 68, digital ch. 220

"Life with Bonnie": David Duchovny guest-stars as egotistical weatherman Johnny Volcano in this very funny repeat episode. Bonnie (Bonnie Hunt) isn't at all pleased when Johnny is a last-minute fill-in guest for her show "Morning, Chicago." Johnny is his usual overbearing self and takes the opportunity to announce that he's beginning a whole new career. 8:30 p.m., ABC, WOLO-25, cable ch. 5

"Keen Eddie": In this new episode, Eddie Arlette (Mark Valley) and Detective Monty Pippin (Julian Rhind-Tutt) investigate an underground fight club where unsuspecting fools are thrust into mismatched brawls and forced to fight for their lives. Meanwhile, Fiona (Sienna Miller) has decided to move to New York. 9 p.m., Fox, WACH-57, cable ch. 6