In 1954...KE2XCC (93.1 FM), the station owned by Maj. Edwin Howard Armstrong, closes down for the final time at 9 PM. Today 93.1 FM is occupied by WPAT-FM.
In 1959...Pioneer IV sent the furthest radio signal ever heard: 400,000 miles.
In 1981...Walter Cronkite stepped down as anchor of The CBS Evening News after 19 years. He was replaced by Dan Rather.
In 1983…The Country Music Television (CMT) network debuted on U.S. cable TV.
In 1995...the Howard Stern Radio Show debuted in Phoenix, Arizona on KEDJ-FM.
In 2005...former BBC Radio 1 DJ, Tommy Vance, died. He originally came to fame during the 1960s as a DJ on British pirate station, "Radio Caroline" and BBC Radio 1. Vance began his radio career in the USA under the name 'Rick West'. He took the name 'Tommy Vance' at the radio station KOL in Seattle from a DJ who had failed to turn up after the station had heavily promoted and paid for expensive jingles which were already recorded.
While at KOL, Vance was recruited by the Top 40 programming consultant Bill Drake, to join his team of "Boss Jocks" at the emerging West Coast KHJ radio in Los Angeles (aka Boss Radio). Vance held the evening airshift at KHJ for several months in late 1965. During this period, it was alleged that Tommy decided to return abruptly to the UK, after running into an unresolvable problem with the U.S. immigration authorities, regarding being drafted for the Vietnam War.
In 2002…Longtime Chicago radio personality (WLS, WCFL) Art Roberts, also remembered for his on-air stints in Milwaukee and Buffalo, died following a series of strokes.
In 2013...Alvin Lee, English rocker, dies from complications from surgery at 68.
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