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Coml
1982 5th space shuttle mission-Columbia 5-launched 1st coml flight

1982 International Whaling Comn votes for total ban on coml whaling (starting 1985)

1970 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 Intelsat 1 ("Early Bird") 1st coml geosynchronous communication satellite

1959 1st transcontinental coml jet flight (American) (LA to New York for $301)

1957 1st coml flight between California and Antartica

1957 1st coml building heated by Sun (Albuquerque NM)

1954 1st coml jet transport plane built in U.S. tested (Boeing 707)

1954 1st local color TV coml WNBT-TV (WNBC-TV) New York City (Castro Decorators)

1953 American Airlines begins 1st regular coml NY-LA air service

1946 1st radar installation aboard a coml ship installed

1941 1st coml TV licenses granted-W2XBS-WNBT (NBC) and WCBW (CBS), New York City

1941 FCC approves regular scheduled coml TV broadcasts to begin July 1

1939 WGY-TV (Schenectady, New York), 1st coml TV station, begins service

1935 1st coml hydroponics operation established (Montebello California)

1922 WEAF in New York City airs 1st radio coml (Queensboro Realty-$100 for 10 mins)

1920 1st U.S. coml radio, 8MK (WWJ), Detroit began daily broadcasting

1901 Allen B DuMont, inventor, perfected coml practical cathode ray tube

1885 Leo Daft opens America's 1st coml operated electric streetcar (Balt)

1813 Joseph Farwell Glidden, inventor, 1st coml useable barbed wire

1802 Thomas Davenport, invented 1st coml electric motor

1765 Robert Fulton, built 1st steamboat



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