Radio annual (1954)

Record Details:

Title:
Radio annual
Date:
1954
Publisher:
New York : Radio Daily Corp.
Volume:
Radio annual and television yearbook (1954)
Leaf #:
0001338
Language:
English
Collection:
Year Book and Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
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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<►<►<► HOLIDAYS AND SPECIAL EVENTS ALMANAC <><►<► 4: Adoption of the present American Flag's design (1818). 5: Elihu Yale Born (1648). Easter Sunday. 7: Peary Discovered North Pole (1909). Louisiana admitted (1812). Bell Telephone Laboratories demonstrates wire television between Washington and New York, and radiovision between Whippany. N. j., and New York (1927). Henry Ford died (1947). 8: Ponce de Leon (1460-1521) Spanish soldier, landed in Fla. near the present site of St. Augustine, Easter Sunday (1513), claiming the land for Spain. The anniversary of the event is observed by the city. 9: Surrender of General Lee (1865). Bell Telephone Laboratories demonstrate two-way television in which speakers at the ends of a 3-mile circuit see each other as they converse (1930). 10: Salvation Army Founder's Day. William Booth born (1829). Joseph Pulitzer born (1847). U. S. Patent System established by Congress (1790). National Be Kind to Animals Week falls about this date. 11: Charles Evans Hughes born (1862). 12: Franklin Delano Roosevelt died (1945). Halifax Independence Resolution (N. C ). 13: Thomas Jefferson born (1743). National Sunday School Week. 14: Pan-American Day. S. S. Titanic disaster at sea proves value of wireless (1912). 15: Abraham Lincoln assassinated (1865). 16: Charles Spencer Chaplin born (1889). 17: Charter granted American Academy of Arts and Letters (1916. 18: San Francisco Fire (1906). 19: Patriots' Day. (Maine, Massachusetts). 20: Adolf Hitler born (1889). 21: Anniversary of Battle of San Jacinto (Texas). 23: James Buchanan born (1791). William Shakespeare born (1564). St. George Day (English). Marconi transatlantic American-Europe service opened (1910). 24: First Newspaper Issued in America (1704). U. S.-Mexican War (1846). U.N. Charter Conference opens in San Francisco (1945). 25: War declared with Spain (1898). St. Mark's Day. Guglielmo Marconi born (1874). 26: Confederate Memorial Day (Florida, Georgia. Mississippi). Slavery abolished in U. S. (1865). First Shot of War with Germany (1917. John James Audubon born (1785). 27: General U. S. Grant born (1822). CBS takes leadership in urging plans for post-war television in the higher frequencies (1944). James Monroe born (1758). Maryland admitted (1788). Sir Thomas Beecham born (1879). Boys and Girls Week always includes May 1. Louisiana purchased (1803). Washington became First President (1789). Rhode Island settled (1636). Benito Mussolini executed (1945). mag 1898) May Day. Child Health Day Labor Day (Canal Zone). Dewey's Victory in Manila Bay Stonewall Jackson fatally wounded (1863). National Music Week. FCC authorized full commercial television (1941). Shenandoah Valley Apple Blossom Festival. Rhode Island Independence Day. Napoleon's death (1821). Cinco de Mayo celebrations (Mexico). Arbor Day. Corregidor Surrender (1942). Admiral Robert E. Peary born (1856). Germany surrendered to United States, England and Russia (1945). Lusitania torpedoed (1915). Johannes Brahms born (1833). Robert Browning born (1812). Plans to spend $1,000,000 for field television tests are announced by R.C.A. president David Sarnoff; tests to start from Empire State Building, N. Y. early in 1936 (1935). V.E. Day (1945). John Brown born (1833). Confederate Memorial Day (Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina). Mothers Day, second Sunday in May. Completion of First Transcontinental Railroad (1869). Minnesota admitted (1858). Florence Nightingale Born (1820). WDRC-FM goes on air under call letters of WIXPW, utilizing Armstrong FM fvstem (1939). Rockefeller Foundation Granted Charter (1913). Free State of Israel proclaimed (1948). First regular Air Mail service in the world inaugurated by the U. S. Government. "I am An American Day," often referred to as Citizenship Recognition Day Norwegian Independence Day (1814). World Good -Will Day, formerly Peace Day. 1286