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100 years anniversary | ||||
13 Jun 1925 | Hans Fellner: Bookseller | |||
13 Jun 1925 | 57th Belmont: Albert Johnson aboard American Flag wins in 2:16.8 | |||
13 Jun 1925 |
Mechanical TV In 1925, the first telecast in the U.S. of objects in motion was invented by Charles Jenkins. He called it "visions by radio." The first mechanical TV system broadcast used 48 scanning lines and showed a model of Dutch windmill with its blades turning. |
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13 Jun 1925
Charles Francis Jenkins |
Charles Francis Jenkins (technology) Charles Francis Jenkins achieves the first synchronized transmission of pictures and sound, using 48 lines, and a mechanical system. A 10-minute film of a miniature windmill in motion is sent across 5 miles from Anacostia to Washington, DC. The images are viewed by representatives of the Bureau of Standards, the U.S. Navy, the Department of Commerce and others. Jenkins calls this "the first public demonstration of radiovision". |
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75 years anniversary | ||||
13 Jun 1950 | South African parliament accept "Groups Area Act" | |||
13 Jun 1950 | Belinda Bauer, Australian-American actress and psychologist | |||
13 Jun 1950 | Nick Brown, English politician | |||
13 Jun 1950 | Gerd Zewe, German footballer and manager | |||
50 years anniversary | ||||
13 Jun 1975 | Dave Roche: Lindsay, Ontario -- NHL left wing (Pittsburgh Penguins) | |||
13 Jun 1975 | Ante Čović, Australian footballer | |||
13 Jun 1975 | Jeff Davis, American screenwriter and producer | |||
13 Jun 1975 | Jennifer Nicole Lee, American model, actress, and author | |||
13 Jun 1975 | Jaan Pehk, Estonian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Ruffus) | |||
13 Jun 1975 | Riccardo Scimeca, English footballer | |||
13 Jun 1975 | John Lennon made his last ever TV appearance when he appeared on 'Salute To Sir Lew Grade', performing 'Slippin And Slidin', and 'Imagine'. The performance was recorded at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel on April 18, 1975. | |||
13 Jun 1975 | Peter Frampton played the first of two nights at the Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, California. Recordings from these two shows were used as part of his No.1 double album 'Frampton Comes Alive'. | |||
13 Jun 1975 | Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2219 Mannucci | |||
25 years anniversary | ||||
13 Jun 2000 | President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang. | |||
13 Jun 2000 | Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981. | |||
13 Jun 2000 | 37-year-old Susan E Santodonato collapsed and died of a heart attack outside New York radio station Star 105.7. after a Britney Spears impersonator left the building. A crowd had gathered after a DJ claimed Britney Spears was in the studio. | |||
13 Jun 2000 | A roadie who worked for The Spice Girls, Oasis, Elton John and Whitney Houston was arrested and charged with smuggling millions of pounds worth of Ecstasy into the UK. | |||
13 Jun 2000 | Bobby Brown admitted he was an alcoholic, saying, 'I have a disease, I am an addict, I am an alcoholic'. The singer made the admission while appearing in a Florida court. | |||
20 years anniversary | ||||
13 Jun 2005 | Jonathan Adams, English actor (b. 1931) | |||
13 Jun 2005 | Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician (b. 1913) | |||
13 Jun 2005 | David Diamond, American composer (b. 1915) | |||
13 Jun 2005 | Lane Smith, American actor (b. 1936) | |||
13 Jun 2005 | A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch. | |||
13 Jun 2005 | Michael Jackson was cleared of all charges of child abuse by a jury of eight women and four men at the end of a 16-week hearing in Santa Maria, California. Jackson was found not guilty of all 10 charges including abusing a 13-year-old boy, conspiracy to kidnap and supplying alcohol to a minor to assist with a felony. | |||
15 years anniversary | ||||
13 Jun 2010 | Jimmy Dean, American singer, actor, and businessman, founded Jimmy Dean Foods (b. 1928) | |||
13 Jun 2010 | A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth. |