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THE DEBUT OF NBC ON THIS DAY IN 1926

 

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

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

           

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FILM RELEASED ON THIS DAY IN 1940

The animated film Fantasia was produced by Walt Disney and released by Walt 
Disney Productions. It is the third feature in the Disney animated features library
and consists of eight animated segments set to pieces of classical music with
conductor Leopold Stokowski, seven of which are performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Fantasia is the first commercial film shown in stereophonic sound. In
1998 the American Film Institute ranked it as the 58th greatest American film 
in their 100 Years…100 Movies and the fifth greatest animated film in their
10 Top 10 list. 


 

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FIRST “DRIVE-IN” BANK ON THIS DAY IN 1946


The date was November 12, 1946. The place was the Exchange National
Bank of Chicago. The innovation was called a "drive-in bank."

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