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16-year-old college student, Ray Newby, was the world's first radio disc jockey when he began to frequently play records on a small spark transmitter
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American radio commentator, Walter Winchell coined the term "disc jockey"
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UK Native, Jimmy Savile becomes the world's first DJ dance party
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Savile becomes the first DJ to use twin turntables for continuous play
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Bob Casey, a well-known "sock hop" DJ, brought the two-turntable system to the U.S.
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American DJ Francis Grasso popularized beatmatching, the technique of creating seamless transitions between records with matching beats, or tempos.
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hip-hop DJ Grand Wizard Theodore invented the scratching technique by accident.
