“White Christmas” has since gone on to become the world’s biggest-selling single of all time.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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The German ocean liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse became the first vessel to transmit a ship-to-shore wireless message.
The broadcast included performances of Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci featuring acclaimed Italian tenor Enrico Caruso.
The Grand Ole Opry moved to its current home at the 4,000-seater Grand Ole Opry House in 1974.
The world’s first radio news program was broadcast on the station 8MK in Detroit, Michigan.
On the 4th July 1950, Radio Free Europe – founded the previous year to transmit uncensored information to audiences behind the Iron Curtain – completed its first broadcast.
On the 5th February 1924 the BBC ‘pips’ were broadcast for the first time.
Desert Island Discs is Britain’s longest-running radio programme.
On the 30th October 1938, Orson Welles directed and narrated a radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds as part of the Mercury Theatre on the Air.
On the 18th October 1922, the British Broadcasting Company was established.
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15th September 1935: Nazi Germany introduces the discriminatory ‘Nuremberg Laws’
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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