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By Kelsi Aguillard

  • Heinrich Hertz detects and produces radio waves.

  • Marchese Guglielmo Marconi builds his first radio equipment, a device that will ring a bell from 30 ft. away

  • American scientist R.A. Fessenden transmists human speech via radiowaves

  • First radio transmission of music at Graz, Austria

  • First radio program of voice and music broadcast in the U.S. (by R.A. Fessenden)

  • KDKA broadcasts the first regular licensed radio broadcast out of Pittsburgh, PA.

  • March: WWJ, an AM station in Detroit, offers the University of Michigan broadcasting rights for extension lectures.

  • Dreese instead runs experimental station WCBC as a project in the basement of West Engineering. This project died at the end of the academic year.

  • WJR-AM offers educational broadcasting spots to the UM. The UM continued to broadcast on WWJ as well. WJR-AM offers educational broadcasting spots to the UM. The UM continued to broadcast on WWJ as well.

  • A radio statio in NYC, WRNY begins to broadcast television shows

  • In August 1953, Presley walked into the offices of Sun Records.

  • the beatles

    From 1960, the Beatles built their reputation playing clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg over a three-year period. Manager Brian Epstein moulded them into a professional act and producer George Martin enhanced their musical potential.

  • United States radio stations begin broadcasting in stereophonic sound.

  • Tennessee to commemorate the site of the KWEM Radio Station Saturday Night Jamboree, the location of the first major public appearance by Elvis Presley before signing with Sun Records a year later

  • In Paris an experimental digital FM transmitter begins operation