In 1907...the first radio broadcast of a musical composition aired occurred.
In 1927...the Federal Radio Commission held its first meeting.
In 1957...Disc jockey Alan Freed tried to fool the panel on CBS-TV's game show "To Tell The Truth."
In 1958...English pop singer Andy Gibb, brother of The Bee Gees' Gibb brothers, was born. He died of a heart infection on March 10, 1988, just five days after his 30th birthday.
In 1960...Elvis Presley was discharged from the Army after two years of service
In 1963…Country music singers Patsy Cline (Crazy, I Fall To Pieces, She's Got You, Walkin' After Midnight), Cowboy Copas (Alabam) and Hawkshaw Hawkins (Lonesome 7-7203) were killed when their small plane crashed near Camden, Tennessee. Cline was 30, Copas was 49, and Hawkins was 41.
In 1977...a "Dial-a-President" Radio show was broadcast featuring U.S. President Jimmy Carter who appeared on CBS News with Walter Cronkite.
In 2012…John Madigan, whose 60-year journalism career included stints in radio (WBBM-AM, Chicago), television (WBBM-TV, Chicago) and print (Newsweek magazine), died of complications from a stroke at 94.
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