The National Broadcasting Co. (NBC), founded by the Radio Corporation of
America (RCA), debuted with a radio network of 24 stations. The first network
radio broadcast was a four-hour "spectacular." NBC is the oldest major
broadcast network in the United States.

A 1926 Freed – Eisemann Model 40 Radio

Oscar-Claude Monet  (November 14, 1840 – December 5, 1926) 

Impressionist painter Monet was famous for such works as Impression,
Sunrise and Water Lilies. His artistic endeavor was to document the
French countryside through the various hours of the day and changing
seasons. He painted many of his famous images of water lilies while he
was going blind.

Veronica Lake
(born Constance Frances Marie Ockelman in New, York)
(November 14, 1922 – July 7, 1973)

Lake became known for her acting in Sullivan’s Travels (1942). She
also appeared in This Gun for Hire in 1942. After taking a hiatus, she
returned to the screen with the 1966 film Footsteps In the Snow. Lake
died from hepatitis and acute kidney injury at the age of 50.

Camille Bohannon

Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman) 
(May 5, 1864 – January 27, 1922)

Apollo 12 was the sixth manned flight in the U.S. Apollo program and the second to
land on the Moon.  It was launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, four months after Apollo 11.