1982 Event 5th space shuttle mission-Columbia 5-launched 1st coml flight 1982 Event International Whaling Comn votes for total ban on coml whaling (starting 1985) 1970 Event Ray Davies of Kinks travels round trip NY-London to change 1 word in "Lola," (Coca-Cola to Cherry Cola) because of BBC coml reference ban 1965 Event Intelsat 1 ("Early Bird") 1st coml geosynchronous communication satellite 1959 Event 1st transcontinental coml jet flight (American) (LA to New York for $301) 1957 Event 1st coml flight between California and Antartica 1957 Event 1st coml building heated by Sun (Albuquerque NM) 1954 Event 1st coml jet transport plane built in U.S. tested (Boeing 707) 1954 Event 1st local color TV coml WNBT-TV (WNBC-TV) New York City (Castro Decorators) 1953 Event American Airlines begins 1st regular coml NY-LA air service 1946 Event 1st radar installation aboard a coml ship installed 1941 Event 1st coml TV licenses granted-W2XBS-WNBT (NBC) and WCBW (CBS), New York City 1941 Event FCC approves regular scheduled coml TV broadcasts to begin July 1 1939 Event WGY-TV (Schenectady, New York), 1st coml TV station, begins service 1935 Event 1st coml hydroponics operation established (Montebello California) 1920 Event 1st U.S. coml radio, 8MK (WWJ), Detroit began daily broadcasting 1901 Birthday Allen B DuMont, inventor, perfected coml practical cathode ray tube 1885 Event Leo Daft opens America's 1st coml operated electric streetcar (Balt) 1813 Birthday Joseph Farwell Glidden, inventor, 1st coml useable barbed wire 1802 Birthday Thomas Davenport, invented 1st coml electric motor
