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COLOUR TELEVISION
On February 4th, John L. Baird demonstrates high-definition
colour television on a nine by 12 foot screen at London's Dominion
Theatre and is transmitting live-action two weeks later. |
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FM
RADIO
It is now possible to purchase FM radio receivers. |
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PEANUTS
The comic strip "Peanuts" by Charles Schultz, appears in eight
newspapers. For the next 48 years, audiences everywhere enjoy
the antics of Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Schroeder, Pig Pen,
and Snoopy the Beagle. |
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GOING
MAD
Mad Magazine is published for the first time |
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BUNNIES
Hugh Hefner debuts "Playboy" magazine with a centrefold photo
of the nude Marilyn Monroe. |
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ADVICE
The Chicago Sun-Times begins carrying the column "Ann Landers
Says". It is written by Esther Pauline Friedman Lederer (her
twin sister is the authour of "Dear Abby"). Her column, which
prints confidential requests from readers for advice, is still
in syndication today. |
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TELEVISION
IN INDIA AT LAST
Indian villiagers travel hundreds of miles to visit six community
TV centres in New Delhi. It takes mounted police to keep crowds
away from the TV sets! TV stations aren't built in India until
1966, and then the sets cost $425, while the average person
makes less than $80 per year. |
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SATELLITE
COMMUNICATION
The USA launches the first communications satellite, Echo I. |
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TV
SETS MAINSTREAM
90% of US homes have one television; 13% have more. |
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DON'T
TOUCH THAT DIAL
AT&T introduces touch-tone phones. |
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BALLPOINT
PEN
Hungarians George and Ladislao Biro invent the ball-point pen. |
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RADIO
USE SKYROCKETS
27.5 million U.S. families own radios. |
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INTERCONTINENTAL
First intercontinental television broadcast. |
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INQUIRING
MINDS WANT TO KNOW
The National Enquirer is published. Dealing mostly with crime,
gore, gossip, miracle cures, and sex, it reaches a circulation
of 4 million by 1975. |
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WHAT'S
ON TV TONIGHT?
TV Guide is published. |
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CENSORED
FREEDOMS
France, under the direction of Charles de Gaulle, legalizes
censorship of the press. Newspapers who do not agree with the
government are shut down. |
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NO
TV FOR SOUTH AFRICA
South Africa makes a conscious decision not to produce television.
The government changes its mind 16 years later, though. |
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TELEVISION
VS. RADIO
Senator Kennedy beats Vice President Nixon in a televised election
debate, thanks to his appearance and manner, which can now be
viewed thanks to Television. On the other hand, Radio listeners,
who heard only the actual arguments of both speakers, believe
that Nixon won the debate. |
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FIRST
TRANSATLANTIC TV BROADCASTS
Thanks to the satellite Telstar 1, launched July 10th, television
broadcasts are now possible between Europe and North America. |
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ALL
NEWS, ALL DAY
New York's WINS debuts its all-news radio programming on April
19th. Other stations across the country do the same, eventually.
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