6675@mneuxg.com (U.K. Tony) (08/28/89)
Part of.................
Associated Press Broadcast Report
for
Monday, August 28, 1989
Today is Monday, August 28th, the 240th day of 1989. There are 125
days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On August 28th, 1963, some 200-thousand people participated in a
peaceful civil rights rally in Washington D-C, where they heard Dr.
Martin Luther King Junior deliver his now-famous ``I Have a Dream''
speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
On this date:
In 1922, radio station W-E-A-F in New York City aired the first
radio commercial. (The Queensboro Realty Company of Jackson Heights
paid one hundred dollars for ten minutes of air time.)
[Moderator's Note: WEAF was the first AM broadcast station in the United
States. It was operated as an experimental station by AT&T. PT]