This Day, That Year – February 13

The Spanish Radio Academy requested a World Radio Day in front of UNESCO’s Executive Board. After extensive consultation, the board recommended UNESCO’s 36th session of the General Conference to celebrate World Radio Day on this day.

Did you know that:

• Tycho Brahe was the first to sketch the “Tychonic system” of the solar system on this day in 1578
• William Shockley was an American physicist and inventor born on this day in 1910
• Charles Chidsey was granted a patent for a solution to male baldness on this day in 1979