February 13, 1909 (Saturday)
- At a dinner in New York for his financial backers, Lee De Forest announced "I have succeeded in combining the wireless telegraph and telephone in one instrument ... Some day the news and even advertising will be sent out to the public over the wireless telephone." De Forest would on demonstrate the technology on January 12, 1910.
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