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John Reith becomes the first Director-General.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370012373#January", "title": "1927", "revid": 1370012373, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1929, "year_label": "1929 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "August 20", "text": "August 20 – John Logie Baird's experimental 30-line television system is first transmitted, by the British Broadcasting Corporation in London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372436446#August", "title": "1929", "revid": 1372436446, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1936, "year_label": "1936 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "Construction begins on the BBC's Broadcasting House, Belfast.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341660497#Arts_and_literature", "title": "1936 in Northern Ireland", "revid": 1341660497, "section": "Arts and literature"}}, {"year": 1936, "year_label": "1936 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 7", "text": "7 June – First outdoors radio broadcast in Gaelic, a religious service from Iona Abbey, transmitted by the BBC.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362260844#Events", "title": "1936 in Scotland", "revid": 1362260844, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1936, "year_label": "1936 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "November 2", "text": "November 2 – The BBC launches the world's first regular television service in high-definition (according to contemporary standards).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373216494#November–December", "title": "1936", "revid": 1373216494, "section": "Events › November–December"}}, {"year": 1955, "year_label": "1955 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "July 21", "text": "21 July – The BBC brings into service its Divis transmitter, its first permanent facility serving Northern Ireland, marking the launch of a television service for Northern Ireland; the 35 kW transmissions can also be readily received in much of the Republic of Ireland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1258394436#Events", "title": "1955 in Northern Ireland", "revid": 1258394436, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1955, "year_label": "1955 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "September 22", "text": "September 22 – Commercial television starts in the United Kingdom with the Independent Television Authority's first ITV franchises beginning broadcasting in London, ending the BBC monopoly.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371173508#September", "title": "1955", "revid": 1371173508, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1956, "year_label": "1956 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 12", "text": "12 December – The Irish Republican Army launches its Border Campaign with the bombing of a BBC relay transmitter in County Londonderry, burning of a courthouse in Magherafelt by a unit led by 18-year-old Seamus Costello and of an Ulster Special Constabulary post near Newry and blowing up of a half-built British Army barracks at Enniskillen. A raid on Gough Barracks in Armagh is beaten off after a brief exchange of fire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1297300903#Events", "title": "1956 in Northern Ireland", "revid": 1297300903, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1965, "year_label": "1965 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "November 13", "text": "November 13 – British theatre critic Kenneth Tynan says \"fuck\" during a discussion on BBC satirical programme BBC-3 for what many believed was the first time on British television. The corporation later issues a public apology.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368843670#November–December", "title": "1965", "revid": 1368843670, "section": "Events › November–December"}}, {"year": 1970, "year_label": "1970 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 20", "text": "November 20 – The Miss World 1970 beauty pageant, hosted by Bob Hope at the Royal Albert Hall, London is disrupted by Women's Liberation protesters. Earlier on the same evening a bomb is placed under a BBC outside broadcast vehicle by The Angry Brigade, in protest at the entry of separate black and white contestants by South Africa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370420699#November", "title": "1970", "revid": 1370420699, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1981, "year_label": "1981 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "September 1", "text": "September 1 – Albert Speer, 76, German architect and Nazi Party politician, he served as the Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production from 1942 until 1945, he briefly served as the Minister of Industry and Production of the Flensburg Government in May 1945,he was one of the defendants at the International Military Tribunal and was sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment in 1946,he revised his prison writings into two autobiographical books, Inside the Third Reich and Spandau: The Secret Diaries, he later published a biographical work about Heinrich Himmler and Himmler's Schutzstaffel (SS) under the English title The Slave State: Heinrich Himmler's Masterplan for SS Supremacy, stroke while visiting London to participate in the BBC show Newsnight", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365913141", "title": "Deaths in September 1981", "revid": 1365913141, "section": "Deaths › September"}}, {"year": 1991, "year_label": "1991 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 20", "text": "June 20 – Harry Collinson, the planning officer for Derwentside District Council, is shot dead at Butsfield, County Durham, England, and the incident is caught on camera by a BBC regional news crew.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371487470#June", "title": "1991", "revid": 1371487470, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 2007, "year_label": "2007 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "October 14", "text": "October 14: Burma restores some Internet access but continues to deny access to foreign news services such as the BBC and CNN, blogs and dissident sites.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1311397445#October", "title": "2007 in Myanmar", "revid": 1311397445, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 2009, "year_label": "2009 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 30", "text": "August 30 – At least five people are killed and 275 injured in a train crash near Yaoundé, Cameroon. (BBC) (Press TV)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367728140#August", "title": "2009", "revid": 1367728140, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 2015, "year_label": "2015 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "March 25", "text": "March 25 – The BBC refuses to renew the contract of Top Gears main presenter, Jeremy Clarkson, resulting in the end of his run on the 2002-format show.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373300271#March", "title": "2015", "revid": 1373300271, "section": "Events › March"}}]}