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1906 in radio
The year
1906 in radio
involved some significant events.
Events
3 October – The first
International Radiotelegraph Convention
opens in
Berlin
.
24 December –
Reginald Fessenden
makes the first radio broadcast from Brant Rock, Massachusetts, USA: a poetry reading, a violin solo and a speech.
Lee de Forest
invents the
audion
(
triode
).
Births
14 January –
William Bendix
,
American
film, radio and television
actor
(died
1964
)
19 January –
Lanny Ross
, American singer, pianist and songwriter (died
1988
)
8 February –
Harman Grisewood
, English radio actor and administrator (died
1997
)
20 February –
James Jewell
, American radio actor, producer and director (died 1975)
24 April –
William Joyce
, American-born Nazi propagandist (executed
1946
)
13 May –
Eileen Fowler
, English fitness instructor (died
2000
)
References