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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

August 20 - National Radio Day

Happy National Radio Day!




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This Day in History:

Frist Around the Telegram



On this day in 1911, a dispatcher in the New York Times office sends the first telegram around the world via commercial service. Exactly 66 years later, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) sends a different kind of message--a phonograph record containing information about Earth for extraterrestrial beings--shooting into space aboard the unmanned spacecraft Voyager II.

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Celebrity Birthday:

Al Roker 
August 20, 1954


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