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 #:
000830
Language:
English
Collection:
Year Book, Broadcasting & Recorded Sound, and Books
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 ^ ^ ^ Opening performance of Metropolitan Opera in New York was televised by closed circuit to 32 theaters in more than 25 cities, and seen by some 70,000 persons. 9: Great Fire in Boston (1872). American Education Week. 10: Martin Luther born (1483). U. S. Marine Corps was created by the Continental Congress (1775). 11: Armistice Day, World War I. Washington admitted (1889). 13: Robert Louis Stevenson born (1850). Edwin Booth born (1833). 14: Robert Fulton born (1765). Book Week. 15: Pike's Peak discovered (1806). 16: Oklahoma admitted (1907). 17: Sixth Congress Met for First Time in Washington (1801). Suez Canal opened (1869). 18: Standard Time went into effect in the U. S. (1883). Dr. V. K. Zworykin demonstrates his kinescope or cathode ray television receiver before a meeting of the IRE at Rochester, N. Y. (1929). 19: Lincoln's ad<lress at dedication of National Cemetery on the battlefield at Gettysburg (1863). James A. Garfield born (1831). 21: North Carolina admitted (1789). Edison Announced invention of Phonograph (1877). 23: Franklin Pierce born (1804). 24: Zachary Taylor born (1784). 28: Thanksgiving Day (4th Thursday), 29: Admiral Byrd Discovered South Pole (1929). 30: Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) born (1835). Russia invaded Finland (1939). Winston Churchill born (1874). Becemher 2: Promulgation of the Monroe Doctrine (1823). 3: Illinois admitted (1818). Gilbert Stuart born (1755). 5: Martin Van Buren born (1782). Walt Disney born (1901). 7: Pearl Harbor attacked (1941). Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin confer at Teheran (1943). Delaware Day. Daily facsimile broadcasting inaugurated by KSD, St. Louis (1938). First coast-to-coast medical telecast in color, surgery in Los Angeles, via closed circuit (1951). 8: Eli Whitney born (1765). U. S. declared war on Japan (1941). 9: Germany-Italy declare war on U. S. (1941). 10: U.S. Declared War on Germany-Italy (1941). Peace Treaty signed with Spain (1899). Mississippi admitted (1817). Human Rights Day. 11: Alfred Nobel born (1833). Indiana admitted (1816). 12: First Marconi Wireless across Atlantic (1901). Pennsylvania admitted (1787). Washington, D. C. became the permanent home of the U. S. Govt. (1800). 13: Council of Trent (1545). 14: Alabama admitted (1819). George Washington died at Mt. Vernon (1799). 15: Bill of Rights Day. Dr. E. F. W. Alexanderson demonstrates his multiple lightbrush television system and projector at St. Louis (1926). 16: Boston Tea Party. Ludwig von Beethoven born (1770). 17: John Greenleaf Whittier born (1807). Aviation Day. First mechanical airplane flight by Wright Brothers (1903). FCC approved color TV (1953). 18: New Jersey admitted (1787). First Sunday paper published (1796). 19: Tyrus (Ty) Cobb born (1886). V/ashington went into winter quarters at Valley Forge (1776). 20: First electrical lights on Broadway (1880). 21: Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock (1620). First day of winter. 23: George Washington resigned Army commission (1783). NBC establishes a permanent coast-to-coast network (1928). 24: "Aida" first performed in Cairo, Egypt (1871) composed for celebration of opening of Suez Canal. Reginald Fessenden transmits human voice by wireless (1906). 25: Washington crossed the Delaware to attack Trenton (1776). Christmas Day. 26: Battle of Trenton (1776). Record snow fall in New York, exceeding in depth the blizzard of 1888 (1947). 27: Louis Pasteur born (1822). 28: Iowa admitted (1848). Woodrow Wilson born (1856). Irish Free State became State of Eire (Ireland). 29: Texas admitted (1845). Andrew Johnson born (1808). First American YMCA established in Boston (1851). MBS, after operation as limited network for two years, expands transcontinentally by adding Don Lee Broadcasting System of California and other stations (1936). 30: Rudyard Kipling born (1865). The Gadsden purchase and new boundary treaty ratified by Mexico and the U. S (1853). 31: New Year's Eve. 796