Radio annual (1954)

Record Details:

Title:
Radio annual
Date:
1954
Publisher:
New York : Radio Daily Corp.
Volume:
Radio annual and television yearbook (1954)
Leaf #:
0001336
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound and Year Book
Format:
Annuals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Recorded Sound Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
September 28, 2023
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Radio-Television Daily's Almanac of Holidays and Special Events 1954 Sattuarg 1: New Year's Day (In all States, Territories, District of Columbia and Possessions). Paul Revere born (1735). Emancipation Proclamation (1863). Blue Network organized (1927). 2: Georgia admitted (1778). 3: Battle of Princeton (1777). William S. Paley is elected president of CBS (1929). 4: Utah admitted (1896). 5: Stephen Decatur born (1779). George Washington Carver Died (1943). Week of Prayer, first week in January. 6: Carl Sandburg born (1878). New Mexico admitted (1912). 7: Millard Fillmore, 13th President born (1800). Electronic system for television, including a dissector tube to scan the image for transmission patented by Philo Taylor Farnsworth (1927). 8. Anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans (Louisiana). 9: Connecticut ratified the U. S. Constitution (1778). Connecticut admitted (1788). 10: Ethan Allen born (1737). 11: Alexander Hamilton born (1757). 12: John Singer Sargent born (1856). 13: Salmon Portland Chase born (1808). 14: First Written Constitution adopted at Hartford, Conn. (1639). 15: Mathew B. Brady died (1896). 17: Benjamin Franklin born (1706). Feast of St. Anthony. 18: Daniel Webster born (1782). 19: Robert E. Lee's birthday (1807) (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia). Edgar Allen Poe born (1809). 20: Inauguration Day. Begun in 1937. To be observed every fourth year from that date by the 20th Amendment to the Constitution. 21: Foundation Day. In the Canal Zone. Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall) Jackson born (1824). 23: S. S. Republic collides with S. S. Florida off N. Y. harbor and flashes CQD signal, summoning rescuers proving value of Marconi apparatus in time of disaster at sea (1909). 24: Gold discovered in Calif. (1848). 25: Weather Signs. It is an old belief that the weather of the whole year depends upon this day. "Sun on St. Paul's Day means a good year, rain or snow foretells indifferent weather, a mist means want, while thunder predicts 12 months of wind and death." (Shepherd's Almanack, 1676). Scottish Poet Robert Burns born (1759). 26: Michigan admitted (1837). General Douglas MacArthur born (1880). A.E.F. landed in Ireland (1942). FM Broadcasters, Inc., holds first annual meeting in N. Y. with attendance of 750 (1944). 27: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born (1756). Lewis Carroll, pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, born (1832). 28: Thomas Edison granted patent on his incandescent light (1880). 29: William McKinley born (1843). Kansas admitted (1861). 30: Franklin D. Roosevelt born (1882). 31: Franz Schubert born (1797). Child Labor Day. Last Sunday in January, also the Saturday preceding and the Monday following. 3tbvnuv^ 1: Victor Herbert born (1859). Supreme Court of the U. S., Chief Justice John Jay presiding, held its first meeting (1790). CQD is adopted as wireless distress call by Marconi Co. (1904). 2: Fritz Kreisler born (1875). Ground Hog Day. Candlemas. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo signed by U. S. and Mexico (1848). 3: Horace Greeley born (1811). 6: Massachusetts admitted (1788). Aaron Burr born (1756). American Forces recapture Manila from Japan (1945). George Herman ("Babe") Ruth born (1895). 7: Charles Dickens born (1812). 8: Boy Scout Day. 9: William Henry Harrison, 9th President, born (1773). Nebraska Admitted (1867). 10: Peace Treaty Signed with Spain Ending Spanish-American War (1899). 11: Thomas A. Edison born (1847). Daniel Boone iborn (1734). 1284