Yearbook of radio and television (1956)

Record Details:

Title:
Yearbook of radio and television
Date:
1956
Publisher:
New York : Radio Daily Corp.
Volume:
Radio annual and television yearbook (1956)
Leaf #:
000827
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound, Books, 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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1^ 1^ HOLIDAYS AND SPECIAL EVENTS ALMANAC 1^ 1^ -^T park (1864). The valley was discovered in 1851. 1 i Fourth Atomic Bomb dropped (experimental over water) Bikini (1946). First telecast of an eclipse of the sun over NBC and CBS (1954). Sulg 1: Battle of San Juan Hill (1898). Dominion Day (Canada). Battle of Gettysburg (1863). Federal fiscal year designated by the law of Aug. 26 (1842), as beginning July 1. Dept. of Commerce organizes a radio division to enforce Wireless Act of June 24, 1910 (1911). 2: Richard Henry Lee's resolution declaring the U. S. independent passed by the Continental Congress (1776). Garfield assassinated (1881). 3: Idaho admitted (1890). John Singleton Copley born (1737). 4: Independence Day. U. S. Military Academy at West Point opene<I (1802). Calvin Coolidge born (1872). Slavery abolished in New York (1825). Providence, R. I. founded by Roger Williams (1636). Work on Erie Canal commenced (1817). Thomas Jefferson died (1826). James Monroe died (1831). John Adams died (1826). Cornerstone of Washington Monument laid (1848). Surrender of Vicksburg (1863). Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty presented to U. S. in Parts (1833). American pilots first participated in air raids over Germany (1942). 5: Admiral David G. Farragut born (1801). 6: Republican Party founded (1854). John Paul Jones born (1747). Columbia University opened (1754). 7: U. S. annexed Hawaii (1898). 8: John D. Rockefeller born (1839). Liberty Bell cracked tolling death of John Marshall (1835). 9: Elias Howe born (1819). 10: Wyoming admitted (1890). James McNeill Whistler born (1834). 11: John Quincy Adams born (1767). Federal Communications Commission is organized to succeed Federal Radio Comm. and also to regulate wire telephony and telegraphy (1934). 12: Orangeman's Day. 13: Forrest's Day (Tennessee). 14: Stars and Stripes adopted (1777). Bastille Day— First Celebrated in U. S. (1914). Admiral Perry opened first negotiations for trade with Japan (1853). 24: 25: 26: 27: 28: 29: 30: 31 First sports event in color, races at Monmouth Park, N. J. (1951). St. Swithin's Day. Mary Baker Eddy born (1881). First Atomic Bomb exploded (experimental) New Mexico (1945). Munoz Rivera's birthday (Puerto Rico). William Makepeace Thackeray born (1811). Thomas F. O'Neil, v.p. of General Tire and Rubber Co., and pres. of General Teleradio, Inc., (parent company of MBS), buys RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. from Howard Hughes for $25,000,000. (1955). Franco-Prussian War began (1870). Guglielmo Marconi died (1937). Spanish Armada defeated by England (1588). Society of Jesuits abolished by Pope Clement XIV (1773). First battle of Bull Run (1861). CBS begins TV broadcasting from station W2XAB (1931). Simon Bolivar born (1783). Pioneer Day (Utah). Mormon Pioneer Day (Idaho). Occupation Day (Puerto Rico). Fifth Atomic Bomb exploded (experimental under water) Bikini (1946). George Bernard Shaw born (1856). Serge Koussevitzky born (1874). New York ratified the U. S. Constitution (1788). First successful Atlantic Cable (1866). Barbosa's birthday, in the Canal Zone. Austria declared war on Serbia (1914). Volunteers of America Founder's Day. National Vegetable Week begins. Booth Tarkington born (1869). Benito Mussolini born (1883). Henry Ford born (1863). First Representative Assembly in America convened (1607). First patent for wireless telegraphy granted in U.S. (1872). Experimental television transmitter W2XBS opened by NBC in N. Y. (1930). Feast of St. Ignatius Loyola. Au0uat 1: Colorado Day. Beginning of World War i (1914). 2: Government of India transferred to British Crown (1858). U. S. War Dept. purchased its first military plane from the Wright Brothers (1909) thus founding the Army Air Corps. 3: Civic Holiday (Canada). Germany declared war on England and France (1914). Columbus sailed from Spain (1492). 4: Feast of St. Dominic. 5: Battle of Mobile Bay (1864) with Admiral Farragut in command. Second Atomic Bomb dropped (1945) Hiroshima. 793