BBC founded
1922
The British Broadcasting Company began regular radio transmission from a London rooftop with a single announcer reading the news in evening dress. Within a few years it had become a public corporation charged with informing, educating, and entertaining. A model of publicly funded broadcasting that would be copied around the world had been invented.
In context
Also in 1922 (6 other events on record)
- Mussolini's march on Rome · Europe · Politics
- Soviet Union declared · Europe · Politics
- Ottoman Empire abolished · Middle East · Politics
- Joyce's Ulysses published in Paris · Europe · Culture
- Tutankhamun's tomb opened · Middle East · Exploration
- Treaty of Rapallo · Europe · Politics
Before and after in Europe
Before and after in Culture
Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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