Wednesday, August 31, 2022

History for August 31

History for August 31 - On-This-Day.com
Buddy Hackett 1924
  • 1920 - The first news program to be broadcast on radio was aired. The station was 8MK in Detroit, MI.
  • 1920 - John Lloyd Wright was issued a patent for "Toy-Cabin Construction," which are known as Lincoln Logs. (U.S. patent 1,351,086)
  • 1946 - Superman returned to radio on the Mutual Broadcasting System after being dropped earlier in the year.
  • 1964 - California officially became the most populated state in America.
  • 1994 - Russia officially ended its military presence in the former East Germany and the Baltics after a half-century.

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