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mahatmakanejeeves

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Mon Mar 19, 2018, 04:27 PM Mar 2018

This one goes out to elleng: here's an unusual anniversary:

From http://www.wlshistory.com/WLS20/

On March 19, 1927, WLS made history by being the first radio station to broadcast Beethoven's entire 9th Symphony, which a station publication at the time called "...the only complete performance of the work ever given on the air in the U.S.".
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