July 23

On the 23rd in 1962, Telstar, the first telecommunications satellite, went into service. The first television broadcast was an address by President Kennedy. Kennedy's schedule ran late however and the broadcast began with the partial transmission of a baseball game being played by the Philadelphia Phillies and the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. The Phillies beat the Cubs 5 to 3. Telstar went out of service on February 21, 1963 when it was exposed to radiation by the explosion of a nuclear bomb in an operation conducted by the United States called Starfish Prime

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