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• Radio scare
  1938

  Many listeners were fooled by a fake "alien attack", broadcasted as a joke, but caused terror to viewers due to well done sound effects.

• Little orpan Annie
  1931

  The radio show Little Orphan Annie starts, and at the time, gas was a dime for a gallon

• NBC
  1926

  NBC is created my RCA, and among the shows were Will Rodgers, Sam and Henry, and The Betty Crocker Show

• Radio show
  1926

  Amos and Andy was the first radio show, and ran through 1960, making it the longest running series in radio history.

• WWG
  1920

  First radio station was created, and in in November, was follwed by KDKA.

• Speech
  1918

  First broadcast of a presidential speech over radio, by Woodrow Wilson to the American people

• Lee De Forest
  1906

  Radio transmission of the human voice is made possible by Lee De Forest's "audion" or now a triode

• Radio Waves
  1860

  Radio waves are predicted by James Clerk Maxwell