1914 in radio
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The year 1914 in radio involved some significant events.
Events
- 28 March â Robert Goldschmidt inaugurates weekly radiotelephone broadcasts from Laeken, Belgium, using a Moretti high-frequency spark transmitter and Marzi microphone. Broadcasts end after the German invasion at the start of World War I.[1]
- 6 October â Edwin Howard Armstrong is granted a United States patent for the regenerative circuit.[2]
Births
- 20 January â Roy Plomley, English radio broadcaster (died 1985)
- 26 January â Jack de Manio, English radio broadcaster (died 1988)
- 25 February â John Arlott, English cricket commentator (died 1991)
- 29 April â Deryck Guyler, English actor (died 1999)
- 12 May â Howard K. Smith, American journalist and radio reporter (died 2002)
- 19 July â Hubert Gregg, English actor, songwriter and broadcaster (died 2004)
- 22 July â Charles Régnier, German actor (died 2001)
- 2 October â Yuri Levitan, Russian radio announcer (died 1983)
- 27 October â Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and radio broadcaster (died 1953)
- 29 October â Ben Gage, American actor, singer and radio announcer (died 1978)
- 25 December â Abelardo Raidi, Venezuelan sportswriter and radio broadcaster (died 2002)
- 29 December â Margaret Hubble, English radio presenter (died 2006)
