Radio annual (1954)

Record Details:

Title:
Radio annual
Date:
1954
Publisher:
New York : Radio Daily Corp.
Volume:
Radio annual and television yearbook (1954)
Leaf #:
0001339
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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O <► O HOLIDAYS AND SPECIAL EVENTS ALMANAC <►<►<► 19: First American Confederation of United Colonies of New England (1643). 20: Anniversary of the Signing of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence (North Carolina) 11775'. FCC gives FM green light authorizing full commercial operation as of Jan. 1, 1941 (1940). Armed Forces Day. 21: Lindbergh's Flight to Paris (1927). 22: National Maritime Day. 23: South Carolina admitted (1788). 24: First Telegraph Message sent (1844). 25: Ralph Waldo Emerson born (1803). 27: Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco opened (1937). 29: Wisconsin admitted (1848). Rhode Island admitted (1790). Patrick Henry born (1736). 30: Memorial Day (In all the States, Territories, District of Columbia and Colonial Possessions, except Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee). 31: Walt Whitman born (1819). The Johnstown (Pa.) flood (1889). Battle of Jutland (1916). Mnm n 1: Kentucky admitted (1792). Tennessee admitted (1796). 3: Confederate Memorial Day (Louisiana, Tennessee). King's Birthday (Canada). Birthday of Jefferson Davis (1808) (Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia). 6: American Marines victorious at Belleau Wood, June 6-10 (1918). Nathan Hale born (1756). D-Day (1944). 7: Daniel Boone Day (Kentucky) 8: Battle of New Orleans (1815). Children's Day. second Sunday in June. Regular TV schedule, three times weekly, inaugurated by WGY, Schenectady (1928). 9: Feast of St. Columba. Confederate Memorial Day (Petersburg, Virginia). Feast of St. Barnabas. The Continental Congress appointed John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston to draft a declaration of independence (1776). Kamehameha, first King of Hawaii, observed in Hawaii. Transatlantic radiophoto of Pope Pius XI by Korn appearing in the New York World declared "a miracle of modern science." (1922). 12: John Augustus Roebling born (1806). Baseball Centennial Celebration of the invention of the game at Cooperstown, N. Y. (1939). 14: Hawaii organized as U. S. territory (1900). Harriet Beecher Stowe born (1811). Flag Day. 15: Pioneer Day (Idaho). Franklin demonstrated the identity of electricity and lightning by use of a kite (1752). Arkansas, 25th state admitted to the Union (1836). Oregon boundary treaty signed at Washington by Great Britain and the U. S. 16: Commencement, the climax of the academic year when degrees are conferred with impressive ceremony. 17: Bunker Hill Day. (In Massachusetts, Suffolk County). 18: Battle of Waterloo (1815). 19: Beginning of War of 1812. King John of England signed Magna Carta (1215). 20: West Virginia Day. 21: Longest Day in Year. Father's Day; 3rd Sunday in June. New Hampshire Joined the Union (1788). Constitution Ratified (1788). 22: Bolivarian Day (Canal Zone). 24: San Juan Day (Puerto Rico). U. S. approves act requiring certain passenger ships to carry wireless equipment and operators (1910). 25: Virginia Admitted (1788). North Korean Communists attack So. Korea (1950). Battle of Little Big Horn, Montana (1876) "Custer's last stand," his defeat by the Sioux Indians. 26: Virginia ratified the U. S. Constitution (1788). President Truman orders U. S. troops intc Korea battle (1950). First American Troops land in France (1917). 27: Helen Keller bom (1880). 78: Archduke Franz Ferdinand Assassinated in Sarajevo (1914). U. S. purchased rights and franchises of France in the Panama Canal (1902). Treaty of Versailles ending World War I signed (1919). 29: George Washington Goethals born (1858). St. Peter's Day. 30: St. Paul's Day. Congress granted Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Big Tree Grove to Calif, for a public park (1864). The valley was discovered in 1851. Fourth Atomic Bomb dropped (experimental over water) Bikini (1946). 1287