Timeline Tuesday 2 November 1920

Events on Tuesday 2 November 1920 2

• 1920 KDKA -- the first commercial radio broadcast Election night, Pittsburgh, 2 November 1920 KDKA in Pittsburgh broadcast the Harding-Cox presidential election results on 2 November 1920, generally recognised as the first commercially licensed radio broadcast in the United States. The Ottoman Empire, founded in 1299, was still formally in existence at the time and would not be dissolved until 1922.
• 1920 Warren G. Harding Elected US President Republican landslide followed by first broadcast election returns Warren G. Harding won the US presidential election in a landslide over Democrat James M. Cox, campaigning on a return to "normalcy" after the war. Radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh broadcast the election results, among the first commercial radio broadcasts in the country. Harding took office in March 1921.