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18th October 1922: The British Broadcasting Company established

18th October 2022
Tagged as: BBC, Britain, Broadcast, Culture, Entertainment, London, Radio, Wireless

The new broadcasting company was a consortium of the UK’s leading radio manufacturers, and was jointly funded through a royalty on the sale of radio sets sold by the member producers and a license fee.

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7th March 1900: First ship-to-shore wireless message sent by SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse

7th March 2021
Tagged as: Germany, Marconi, Navy, Radio, Science, Ship, Technology, Wireless

The German ocean liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse became the first vessel to transmit a ship-to-shore wireless message.

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18th October 1922: The British Broadcasting Company established

7th March 1900: First ship-to-shore wireless message sent by SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

6th February 1958: Munich Air Disaster kills 23 members of the Manchester United football team after BEA flight 609 crashes at Munich-Riem airport

5th February 1958: Nuclear bomb lost off Tybee Island in Georgia, USA after an in-air collision

4th February 1945: Yalta Conference begins, attended by the ‘Big Three’ of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin

3rd February 1961: Operation Looking Glass begins its 29-year Cold War flight above the USA

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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