World Radio Day
UNESCO picked this date in 2011 — it's the anniversary of UN Radio's first broadcast in 1946. Still the most accessible mass medium on Earth.
- Category
- Awareness
- Observed in
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Also on this day
Full history →Notable · 2017
Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was assassinated using VX nerve agent in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.- 2021Former U.S. President Donald Trump is acquitted in his second impeachment trial.
- 2021A major winter storm causes blackouts and kills at least 82 people in Texas and northern Mexico.
- 2017Kim Jong-nam, brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, is assassinated at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.