March 19
1953:Bob Hope hosts the first televised Academy Awards
ceremony, as the 25th annual event is broadcast on NBC from the RKO
Pantages Theater in Hollywood. Thirty-four million Americans tune in to
see Cecil B. DeMille’s The Greatest Show on Earth win for best picture.
1916: The United States uses aircraft to support a military combat mission for the first time, employing eight Curtiss “Jenny” planes to support Brig. Gen. John Pershing’s 7,000 troops who had invaded Mexico in search of revolutionary leader Pancho Villa. Although Villa would never be captured, the First Aero Squadron earned invaluable flying experience during the 11-month mission, which would prove important when the United States entered World War I a year later.
1979: Rep. Al Gore, D-Tenn., is the first U.S. congressman to speak live on C-SPAN, the new cable network instituted to broadcast the proceedings of Congress.
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