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March 5 Saints of the Day – Mark the Ascetic and Piran
On this day in 1907, the first radio broadcast of a musical composition was aired, although to be perfectly honest, snatches of Cage’s as-yet-uncomposed 4’33” had been broadcast from time to time...
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May 7 Saints of the Day – Alexis of Wilkes-Barre and Albert of Bergamo
On this date in 1895, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrated a primitive radio receiver which he called a “lightning detector,” finally validating Benjamin Franklin’s theory that...
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June 11 Saint of the Day – Barnabas the Apostle
On this date in 1935, inventor Edwin Armstrong gave the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States. It was attended only by longhairs, protobeatniks, and future AOR aficionados....
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August 10 Saint of the Day – Lawrence of Rome
On this day in 1948, Candid Camera made its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone. Both of these incarnations were infinitely more popular than the prior newspaper...
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