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Bonnie Raitt poses backstage at the 55th annual Grammy Awards. 

Bonnie Lynn Raitt is 64 today. She is on Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest
Singers of All Time at #50 and her 2013 album “Slipstream” won Best
Americana Album at the Grammy Awards.

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LOOKING BACK AT TODAY IN HISTORY

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Beloved Christian evangelist William Franklin "Billy" Graham, Jr. is 95 today 

                        
                                HAPPY BIRTHDAY BROTHER GRAHAM!

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LOOKING BACK AT TODAY IN HISTORY

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BROADCASTING BEGAN ON THIS DAY IN 1920

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Dr. Frank Conrad (above), assistant chief engineer of Westinghouse Electric, developed the technology that made KDKA Radio possible. He constructed a transmitter and installed it in a garage near his home in 1916. The station was licensed originally as 8XK with a power of 100 watts.

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A makeshift studio located in a shack atop one of the Westinghouse Electric buildings in East Pittsburgh. 

On Tuesday, November 2, 1920, election night, four men (pictured above) compiled election returns received via wired-telephone from the newsroom at the Pittsburgh
Post newspaper. It is estimated that between 500 and 1000 listeners heard this
broadcast of the world’s first commercial radio station.

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Harold W. Arlin, first full-time KDKA announcer

 

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NEWS ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

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Willie Hugh Nelson is 80 years old today

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