1906 in radio
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The year 1906 in radio involved some significant events.
Events[]
- October 3 – The first International Radiotelegraph Convention opens in Berlin.
- December 24 – Reginald Fessenden makes the first radio broadcast: a poetry reading, a violin solo and a speech.
- Lee de Forest invents the audion (triode).
Births[]
- January 14 – William Bendix, American film, radio and television actor[1] (died 1964)
- January 19 – Lanny Ross, American singer, pianist and songwriter[1] (died 1988)
- February 8 – Harman Grisewood, English radio actor and administrator (died 1997)
- February 20 – James Jewell, American radio actor, producer and director (died 1975)
- April 24 – William Joyce, American-born Nazi propagandist (executed 1946)
- May 13 – Eileen Fowler, English fitness instructor (died 2000)
References[]
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