10 Timeline Memories:
1.1880] Got a light?: Thomas Edison patents the electric incandescent lamp…
2.1926] Radio with pictures: John Logie Baird, a Scottish inventor, demonstrates a pictorial transmission machine called television…
3.1927] Networking: United Independent Broadcasters, Inc. starts a radio network of 16 stations. The company will later be renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)…
4.1948] Wired: The Wire Recording Corporation of America announces the first magnetic tape recorder. The “Wireway” with a built-in oscillator sells for $149.50. Here’s a Webster wire recorder in action…
5.1951] Dropping A bomb: Atomic testing begins in the Nevada desert when an Air Force plane drops a one-kiloton bomb on Frenchman Flats…
6.1967] Death on the pad: A flash fire aboard Apollo I during a test kills astronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee…
7.1981] Welcome back: Ronald Reagan welcomes the 52 former Iranian hostages to the White House. The story of the crisis is told in this clip…
8.1991] A super performance: Whitney Houston sings the definitive version of our national anthem at Super Bowl XXV and Scott “wide right” Norwood becomes famous for missing a field goal that would have won it for Buffalo. Instead, the Giants win 20-19…
9.1998] A right-wing conspiracy: First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton blames a “vast right-wing conspiracy” on her husband’s (Monica) personal (Lewinsky) problems on “The Today Show”…
10.2004] The winner and not champion: John Kerry wins the New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary. Here, Kerry gives his concession speech…For more on January 27:
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