Coverage of the Harding-Cox Election was the first radio news broadcast
of KDKA in Pittsburgh.

Radio station KDKA (1020 kHz) is licensed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Created
by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation on November 2, 1920, it is the world’s
first commercial radio station, a distinction that has also been challenged by other stations. It is currently owned and operated by CBS Radio.

The world’s first broadcast of “market” reports are on the air on May 19,
1921.

KDKA hosted political comedian Will Rogers in his very first radio
appearance in 1922

Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977)
Born in Chester, Pennsylvania

When she was seventeen, Waters attended a costume party at a nightclub
where some of the guests convinced her to sing, helping her to land her
first gig. She often toured with evangelist Billy Graham on his crusades.

Waters was the second African American, after Hattie McDaniel, to be
nominated for an Academy Award. She is also the first African-American
woman to be nominated for an Emmy Award, in 1962.

Actor and movie director Orson Welles during a press conference in Paris
on February 22, 1982.  

(AP) – Orson Welles’s last film may finally be nearing release after decades
as one of cinema’s most storied unfinished creations.

The New York Times reported Wednesday that a Los Angeles production
company, Royal Road Entertainment, has agreed to buy the rights to Welles’
largely unseen "The Other Side of the Wind." Producers are planning to unveil
the film in time for the centennial anniversary of Welles’ birth on May 6.

The semi-autobiographical film is about a movie director, played by John Huston,
feuding with Hollywood over an ambitious film. Welles shot the movie in 1971 and
spent the rest of his life editing it, before dying in 1985.

Director Peter Bogdanovich, who appears in the film, will help edit the footage,
which includes a roughly 45-minute edited print.

First strip (10-26-1970)

The comic strip Doonesbury, well known for its social and political commentary, is
written and penciled by Garry Trudeau, then inked and lettered by his assistant
Don Carlton. It debuted as a daily strip in about two dozen newspapers and was
the first strip from Universal Press Syndicate. A Sunday strip began on March 21,
1971  It is currently syndicated in approximately 1,400 newspapers worldwide. 

 
Garretson Beekman "Garry" Trudeau (July 21, 1948)

 
1976