Happy Birthday, Ben Bernie! Today would be Ben Bernie's 133rd Birthday. The old Maestro' was known for his entertaining patter more than his violin playing and a 'feud' with his good friend Walter Winchell. A musical genius from a very... otrcat.com/p/ben-bernie
115 Years Ago today in Radio History: Happy Birthday, Benny Goodman! Clarinetist and Bandleader Benjamin 'Benny' Goodman was born in Chicago, 1909, to Russian immigrant parents, and would become 'the king of otrcat.com/p/benny-goodman
170 Years Ago today in Radio History: Although it had temporarily maintained the balance between Free and Slave States, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which was enacted on this date, May 30, 1854, effectively repea otrcat.com/p/civil-war
35 Years Ago today in Radio History: During the Tiananmen Square Protests on this date, May 30, 1989, student protestors erected a 33-foot-tall replica of the Statue of Liberty, naming it 'The Goddess of Dem otrcat.com/p/communists-a…
Happy Birthday, Beatrice Lillie! Today would be Beatrice Lillie's 130th Birthday. The funniest woman in the World, Beatrice Lillie was thrown out of a church choir at the age of eight for making the boys giggle during services. Today... otrcat.com/p/beatrice-lil…
Happy Birthday, John Kennedy! Today would be John Kennedy's 107th Birthday. Extensive collection of presidential speeches, recordings, and assassination coverage + transcripts, images and documents! Today only: his collections is on... otrcat.com/p/john-f-kenne…
Happy Birthday, Bob Hope! Today would be Bob Hope's 121st Birthday. Bob Hope is one of the best loved entertainers of all time. He was in the business for a very long time, but Bob never forgot that he was there for the audience, not the... otrcat.com/p/bob-hope
55 Years Ago today in Radio History: A dress rehearsal for the Apollo 11 moon landing,27 Apollo 10 spent more than two-and-a-half days in lunar orbit, and on this date, May 26, 1969, successfully splashed do otrcat.com/p/space-missio…
105 Years Ago today in Radio History: The US Navy Flying Boat NC-4 landed in Lisbon Harbor on this date, May 27, 1919, completing the first flight across the Atlantic, accomplishing an eleven-day mission bese otrcat.com/p/airplanes-an…
Happy Birthday, Dashiell Hammett! Today would be Dashiell Hammett's 130th Birthday. Writer of the Maltese Falcon, Red Harvest, and The Thin Man, Hammett has an enduring reputation as the godfather of the hard-boiled detective genre... otrcat.com/p/dashiell-ham…
Happy Birthday, John Cheever! Today would be John Cheever's 112th Birthday. One of America's great short stories artists, John Cheever often referred to as 'the Chekov of the suburbs.' Today only: his collections is on sale at 20% off. otrcat.com/p/john-cheever
Alan Young - Actor, voice actor, comedian and radio personality, Alan Young interest in acting began young when he entered a monologue contest and won a $3 prize. Update: 2 additional recordings otrcat.com/p/alan-young
130 Years Ago today in Radio History: Challenger Emanuel Lasker defeated title holder Wilhelm Steinitz on this date, May 26, 1894, to claim the World Chess Championship. otrcat.com/p/chess
35 Years Ago today in Radio History: 'The Day Radio Stopped' was a dead-air promotion when as many as 10,000 stations across the nation went off the air for 90 seconds at 7:42 a.m. local time on this date, M otrcat.com/p/behind-the-m…
Happy Birthday, GK Chesterton! Today would be GK Chesterton's 150th Birthday. Experience a bit of the genius of G. K. Chesterton through his thoughts about architecture, Rudyard Kipling, and the ingredients for the Spice of... otrcat.com/p/gk-chesterto…
55 Years Ago today in Radio History: Crossing the Polar Ice Cap from Point Barrow, Alaska to the Svalbard Archipelago in Norway via the geographic North Pole, on this date, May 29, 1969, the British Trans-Ar otrcat.com/p/arctic-exped…
