Sunday, November 26, 2023

Today -100: November 26, 1923: Hello America


Radio broadcasts from Britain are heard in the US for the first time. US stations stop broadcasting at 10pm Eastern to facilitate the test, although some jackasses in Chicago and San Antonio couldn’t manage to stay off the air the whole 30 minutes. 8 British stations from London to Cardiff to Glasgow participated in the experiment.

Former German treasury minister Heinrich F. Albert will attempt to form a caretaker government. This would be a cabinet of non-partisan technocrat types, without the backing of a majority in the Reichstag. Albert was in the US before it entered the Great War trying to keep the US out but also overseeing spying and sabotage.

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