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1993 General Motors sues NBC, alleging that "Dateline NBC" program had rigged 2 car-truck crashes to show that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to fires

1992 "Scared Silent" is 1st non news program to be seen on 3 networks simultaneously. (CBS, NBC and PBS), about child abuse hosted by Oprah

1992 CBS TV premieres overnight news program "Up To The Minute"

1989 "Rambling with Gambling" 20,000th radio program on WOR-AM (New York City)

1988 New York City begins $70 million program to rebuild 900 Bronx apartments

1983 Senate revises immigration laws, gives millions of illegal aliens legal status under an amnesty program

1982 TA launches 5 year capital program to overhaul New York City subway system

1980 ABC's nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed "Nightline"

1978 French TV announced a rating of "0" for a program about an Armenian's woman's 40th birthday, (comp: Napoleanic drama-67%, Knockout-33%)

1972 "Waltons" TV program premieres

1966 Britains rock TV show, "Ready Steady Go," last program

1964 1st BASIC program runs on a computer (Dartmouth)

1962 US abandons Skybolt balastic missile program

1962 1st Europe-U.S. live TV program (via Telstar)

1956 1st test firing of Vanguard satellite program, TV-0

1955 "Millionaire" TV program premieres on CBS

1954 Walt Disney's 1st television program, "Disneyland," premieres on ABC

1954 1st FORTRAN computer program run

1954 Michael W. Butler, computer programmer, created TODAY program

1950 1st transmission of a TV program from continental Europe shown on BBC

1950 FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program begins

1949 President Truman announces his point 4 program

1948 1st stored computer program run, on Manchester Mark I

1948 President Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program

1945 1st "bug" in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with tweasers from a relay and taped into the log

1945 President Truman ends Lend-Lease program

1938 U.S. Federal Crop Insurance program authorized

1936 RCA shows 1st real TV program (dancing, film on locomotives, Bonwit Teller fashion show and monologue from Tobacco Road and comedy)

1935 1st "Hawaii Calls" radio program is broadcast

1932 Wernher von Braun named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program

1931 Singer Kate Smith begins her long-running radio program on CBS

1931 Program for woman athletes approved for 1932 Olympics track and field

1922 Mussolini ask Vatican for support of fascist party program

1920 Detroit radio station is 1st to broadcast a news program on the air

1920 Marcus Garvey presents his "Back To Africa" program in New York City

1920 Jose Melis, Havana Cuba, orch leader, Jack Paar Program

1919 1st Dutch radio program: Soiree Musicale with "Turf in you(r) ransel"

1913 Maurice Wilkes, inventor, stored program concept for computers

1866 Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, broadcast 1st program of voice and music

1829 Pope Pius VIII issues his program for pontificate



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