Source: Good News Network
70 years ago today, the first broadcast of the “CBS Evening News” aired—the longest running network news show in U.S. history. It originally ran as a 15-minute broadcast each weeknight anchored by Douglas Edwards, and it was the first scheduled network TV news program to use an on-camera anchor.
14 years later, reporter Walter Cronkite took the helm of the news desk where he stayed for nearly two decades. WATCH Cronkite’s reaction to man landing on the moon… (1948)MORE Good News on this Day:
- Washington, D.C. was incorporated as a city (1802)
- The Anne Frank House opened in Amsterdam to showcase the life, the diary and death of the 14-year-old holocaust hero (1960)
- National Public Radio stations broadcast the premiere of All Things Considered (1971)
- Margaret Thatcher became Britain’s first female prime minister (1979)
- Soviet leader Andropov decreased nuclear weapons in Europe (1983)
- Iraq‘s first democratically elected government was sworn in (2005)
- The first Bob Dylan radio program, “Theme Time Radio Hour”, aired on XM Satellite Radio – lasting for 3 years, it featured an eclectic mix…
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