13-January... Public Radio Broadcasting Day...


US Postal Administration in the year 1998 commemorated the Public Radio Broadcasting Day with the release of a 32-cent postage stamp... 

The day was observed annually on this day (13-Jan), to celebrate a very special piece of technology that the Scientist, Marconi has invented - the Radio...  The day honors those who devised public broadcasting...

On this day in the year 1910, a live opera - featuring some of the most renowned Opera singers of that period - was broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House...  And, this became the World's First Public Radio Broadcast too...

This stamp can be collected under the themes:

(a) Science and Technology...
(b) Radio...
(c) Instruments...

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