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Ray Bradbury is born in Waukegan, IL.
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KDKA
KDKA, Pittsburgh, becomes the first commercially licensed radio station. -
33% of all homes have a radio.
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Books are burned across Germany.
Nazi Book Burning Across Germany, groups of university students burn up to 25,000 "un-German" books. -
Television
NBC begins regular commercial broadcasting. -
9% of U.S. households have a television.
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McCarthyism
Sen. Joseph McCarthy encourages libraries to destroy literature with controviersial ideas and issues lists of "pro-communist" books. -
Bradbury writes to Richard Matheson.
radio has contributed to our ‘growing a lack of attention’ simply because we tune in, see five minutes of one thing, ten minutes of other [sic], half an hour of this, an hour of that. This sort of hopscotching existence makes it almost impossible for people, myself included, to sit down and get into a novel again . . . Also, I want to re-emphasize the fact that we haven’t time to think anymore. http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/out-of-the-nursery-to-college-back-to-the-nursery -
Fahrenheit 451 is published.
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64.5% of U.S. households have televisions.
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87.1% of American households have a television.
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Bradbury Interview
