1996 Event Howard Stern radio show premieres in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on WZMT 97.9 FM 1967 Birthday Ted N Tryba, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, PGA golfer, 1995 Anheuser-Busch Golf 1953 Event WDAU (now WYOU) TV chan 22 in Scranton Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (CBS) begins 1953 Event WNEP TV channel 16 in Scranton Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (ABC) 1st broadcast 1953 Event WBRE TV channel 28 in Wilkes-Barre Scranton, Pennsylvania (NBC) 1st broadcast 1952 Birthday Mary McDonnell, born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, actress, Sneakers, Independence Day 1929 Birthday Lawrence Coughlin, born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Representative-R-Pennsylvania 1969 - 1993 1909 Birthday Joseph L Mankiewicz, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, film writer and director, Sleuth 1808 Event Anthracite coal 1st burned as fuel, experimentally, Wilkes-Barre, Pa
