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Here’s the News

“Now here’s the man for whom the news wouldn’t be the news without the news, Heeeere’s Dicky.” (Dan Rowan in Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In)

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The King’s Speech

“This is the first broadcast made by a British monarch on radio. King George V opened the British Empire Exhibition on 23 April 1924. In his speech, broadcast by the BBC, he thanks all those who worked to deliver such a ‘magnificent result’, despite challenges such as the ‘unfavourable weather’.” (British Library website.)

What Comes Around …

Theophilus Van Kannel was inducted into the National Inventors’ Hall of Fame in 2007.

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Going Electric

Bob Dylan went electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. He played Maggie’s Farm on a Fender Stratocaster. To digress, he left it on a ‘plane after the festival and it wasn’t found until 2012.

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