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Thomas Edison creates an 8 minutes film about a robbery by Butch Cassidy. It is one of the first films to tell a coherent story.
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A Marconi wireless station in Newfoundland picks up an SOS from the Titanic. Carr Van Anda of the New York Times calls that the Titanic's wireless station has been silent for 30 minutes since they called the SOS.
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Frank Conrad starts experimenting with the recently invented medium of radio. At the time radios were only used for naval communications. Then, the first official radio station is created.
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Franklin Roosevelt has a weekly radio broadcast known as the fireside chats.
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Hitler had just gave a formal speech, but a sound engineer has left the equipment on. They heard Hitler say things such as “Had I finished off France in ‘39 the world history would be different,
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Newspaper have trouble gaining and keeping subscribers due to competition with television
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Martin Luther King Jr. gives speech to 200,000 civil-rights marchers. King wins Nobel Peace Prize a year later.
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Terrorists raid the Olympic Village and hold 11 hostages and kill them.
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MTW launches the first ever aired music video. “Video Killed the Radio Star”
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The chase of OJ Simpson is caught on video from above helicopter following the scene.
