Voice of America is an international broadcasting state media
network funded by the federal government of the United States
of America. It is the largest and oldest of the U.S. international broadcasters. VOA produces digital, TV, and radio content in 48 languages, which it distributes to affiliate stations around the
world.

Its targeted and primary audience is non-American outside the
US borders. As of November 2022, its reporting reached 326
million adults per week across all platforms. It is financed by
the U.S. Agency for Global Media after approval by Congress.    

VOA was established in 1942, and on February 24, 1942, the
Foreign Information Service, precursor to the Voice of America,
made its first broadcast from New York City to Europe. 

The VOA charter was signed into law in 1976 by U.S. President
Gerald Ford. It is headquartered in Washington, D.C.

As of 2022, VOA had a weekly worldwide audience of about
326 million (up from 237 million in 2016) and employed 961
staff with an annual budget of $267.5 million.

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Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (1913 – 2006)

Voice of America headquarters.

Louis Armstrong being interviewed in the Voice of America Studio.

 
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Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton married each other
for the first time on March 15, 1964, in Montreal, Canada.

New System Laundry with fleet and employees 1001 NE
Flanders St. (City of Portland photo)

On March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein was born, the son of a
Jewish electrical engineer in Ulm, Germany. Einstein’s
theories of special and general relativity drastically altered
human understanding of the universe, and his work in
particle and energy theory helped make possible quantum
mechanics and, ultimately, the atomic bomb.

Sir Michael Caine (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite) has
appeared in more than 160 films over a career that spanned
eight decades and is considered a British cultural icon.

He has received numerous awards including two Academy
Awards, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and
a Screen Actors Guild Award.

As of 2017, the films in which Caine has appeared have
grossed over $7.8 billion worldwide. Caine is one of only
five male actors to be nominated for an Academy Award
for acting in five different decades. In 2000, he received
a BAFTA Fellowship and was knighted by Queen
Elizabeth II.

Caine as Batman’s butler Alfred.

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