November 2

Radio station KDKA, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was the first licensed commercial radio station. On the 2nd in 1920, the station began its life by broadcasting the results of that year’s Presidential elections. Warren G. Harding decisively beat Franklin D. Roosevelt with a score of 404 electoral votes for Harding and 127 for FDR.

Robert Trow, who would become well known by virtue of his playing the characters of Bob Dog and Robert Troll on Fred Rogers’ show, Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood, got his start at this radio station.