1904 in radio

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The year 1904 in radio involved some significant events.

Events[]

January 7 (with effect from February 1) – The Marconi Company establishes "CQD" as one of the first international maritime radio distress signals.^[1]
May 24 – The United States Patent Office awards Marconi a patent for a "Wireless signaling system".^[2]
November 16 – English electrical engineer John Ambrose Fleming, working for Marconi, is awarded a United States patent for the Fleming valve, the first thermionic vacuum tube, a two-electrode diode, which he calls the oscillation valve.^[3]
First radio transmission of music, at Graz, Austria.^[4]

January 5 – Anona Winn, Australian-born British broadcasting personality (d. 1994)
January 15 – Charles Hill, British physician, medical and broadcast executive, politician and "The Radio Doctor" (d. 1989)
February 23 – William L. Shirer, American war correspondent (d. 1993)
May 8 – John Snagge, English radio newsreader (d. 1996)
May 24 – Sefton Delmer, German-born British propaganda radio broadcaster (d. 1979)
August 14 – Lindley Fraser, Scottish-born academic economist and broadcaster (d. 1963)
November 24 – Pegeen Fitzgerald, American radio talk-show host (both alone and with her husband, Ed) on WOR and WJZ in New York City^[5] and Norcatur, Kansas (d. 1989)^[6]

^ "Radio in History". On This Day. Retrieved 2019-10-22.
^ U.S. Patent 760,463.
^ U.S. Patent 803,684.
^ "Radio/Broadcasting Timeline". CBN History. WCBN. Retrieved 2019-10-22.^{[additional citation(s) needed]}
^ Flint, Peter B. (January 31, 1989). "Pegeen Fitzgerald, 78, Radio Host Of Family-Style Talk Show, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
^ "Pegeen Fitzgerald". Radio Television Mirror. 35 (4): 80. March 1951. Retrieved 9 April 2016.

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