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1891 Thomas Edison
patents the radio
1901 Guglielmo Marconi
receives the first trans-Atlantic
radio signal in Newfoundland
, Canada
; it is Morse code for the letter "S."
1906 Reginald Fessenden makes the first radio broadcast: a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
1908 A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
1920 First transatlantic two-way radio broadcast?
1920 The first commercial radio station in the United States, 8MK (WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan
.
1921 The first religious radio broadcast (KDKA AM in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
)
1922 President of the United States
, Warren G. Harding
introduces the first radio in the White House
.
1922 The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom
. 2LO became the first radio station in the United Kingdom.
1924 Calvin Coolidge
becomes the first President of the United States
to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House
.
1925 Calvin Coolidge
becomes the first President of the United States
to have his inauguration broadcasted on radio.
1925 Country-variety show ''Grand Ole Opry'' makes its radio debut on station WSM (it would later become the longest-running live music
show).
1926 Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll premiere their radio program ''Sam 'n' Henry'', in which the two white performers portrayed two black characters from Harlem looking for extra money during the Depression
. It was a precursor to Gosden and Correll's more popular later program, ''Amos 'n' Andy''.
1926 The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations (it was formed by Westinghouse, General Electric
and RCA
).
1927 The Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission
) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies.
1929 The radio comedy
show ''Amos and Andy'' makes its debut starring Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll.
1932 ''Buck Rogers in the 25th Century'' airs on radio for the first time.
1936 ''The Green Hornet'' radio show debuts.
1936 The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) begins radio in Canada
.
1937 Arturo Toscanini
conducts the NBC Symphony Orchestra on radio for the first time, beginning his successful 17-year tenure with that orchestra. Millions tune in to listen, including U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
1941 The radio program ''King Biscuit Time'' is broadcast for the first time (it would later become the longest running daily radio broadcast in history and the most famous live blues radio program).
1941 World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor
- A fleet of six aircraft carrier
s commanded by Japan
ese Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo leaves Hitokapu Bay for Pearl Harbor
under strict radio silen
1944 The radio show, ''The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet'' debuts.
1947 Propaganda
: The ''Voice of America
'' begins to transmit radio broadcasts into the Soviet Union
.
1954 In Memphis, Tennessee
, WHBQ becomes the first radio station to air an Elvis Presley
record
1954 The last new episode of ''The Lone Ranger'' is aired on radio after 2,956 episodes over a period of 21 years
1958 ''Have Gun, Will Travel'' debuts on radio
1969 Vietnam War
: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon addresses the nation on television
and radio, asking the "silent majority" to join him in solidarity with the Vietnam War
effort, and to support his policies. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew denounces the President's critics as 'an effete corps of impudent snobs' and 'nattering nabobs of negativism'.
1978 United States Senate
proceedings are broadcasted on radio for the first time.
1987 The Federal Communications Commission
rescinds the Fairness Doctrine, which had required radio and television
stations to "fairly" present controversial issues.
1994 NASA
loses radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of Venus (the spacecraft presumably burned up in the atmosphere either October 13 or October 14).
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