First live trans Atlantic TV broadcast via Telstar 1
On July 23, 1962 Telstar 1 transmitted the first live trans Atlantic TV broadcast featuring Walter Cronkite. The following July 23 events include the start of Detroit’s 12th Street Riots in 1967, which lasted five days and left 43 dead, hundreds injured, and over 1,400 buildings burned.
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Telstar 1
CBS News
Walter Cronkite
12Th Street
Detroit
Notable events on July dates across history
A compact chronology notes milestones from Brigham Young and Mormon pioneers reaching Utah in 1847 to Confederate reentry in 1866, WikiLeaks Afghan War Diary release in 2010, foundational U.S. military and civil rights milestones, and notable 20th century wars and royal wedding dates.
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Brigham Young
Utah
Salt Lake Valley
Tennessee
U.S. Capitol
WikiLeaks
United States
Afghanistan
Austria-Hungary
Serbia
Herbert Hoover
U.S
Washington, D.C
Empire State Building
New York City
Irish Republican Army
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Richard Nixon
Nikita Khrushchev
Moscow
Nixon
Center
Khrushchev
Sokolniki Park
Leonid Brezhnev
Columbia
Eileen Collins
Este Astern
Ished
New York
Harry Truman
Army
Navy
Air Force
Department of Defense
National Security Council
Joint Chiefs of Staff
CIA
George H.W. Bush
London
Dwight D. Eisenhower
National Aeronautics and Space Act
NASA
101St Airborne Division
Vietnam
Prince Charles
Diana Spencer
St. Paul's Cathedral
Puerto Rico
U.S. Commonwealth
Louise Joy Brown
Greater Manchester
Congress
Department of Foreign Affairs
Department of State
House of Representatives
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