World Radio Day

  Radio broadcasting starts in Estonia, Iceland, Lithuania and Yugoslavia.  A radio station is establishedin Beijing (China) .  The Indian Broadcasting Company (an affiliate of British Marconi ) is authorized to open radio stations in India.  A radio broadcasting monopoly is set up in Japan with the establishment of NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai) , a public utility incorporating the existing Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya stations.  Following a resolution from the UIR and seeking to avoid or settle differences between radio broadcasting bodies , the League of Nations examines the dangers of international radio for world peace.  3 to 12 May : In Britain the general strike hits the press , and the BBC becomes the only source of news and public information .  In the U.S.A. RCA sets up the NBC (National BroadcastingCompany) network , based on two existing networks.  Radio Zagreb is opened in Yugoslavia.

Marconi began to build high-powered stations on both sides of the Atlantic to communicate with ships at sea. In 1904, he established a commercial service to transmit nightly news summaries to subscribing ships, which could incorporate them into their on-board newspapers. A regular transatlantic radio-telegraph service was finally begun on 17 October 1907 between Clifden, Ireland, and Glace Bay, but even after this the company struggled for many years to provide reliable communication to others. Marconi's apparatus is also credited with saving the 700 people who survived the tragic Titanic disaster .