Genealogy research and commentary by Marian Burk Wood, speaker and author of "Planning a Future for Your Family's Past," available from Amazon.com.

On November 2, 1920, Westinghouse broadcast Harding's landslide from a 100-watt transmitter in East Pittsburgh to an audience of perhaps a thousand.

In 1926, Catholic priest Ronald Knox announced on BBC radio that communist revolutionaries had destroyed Big Ben, demolished Parliament, and blown up the Savoy Hotel. Some listeners believed him, despite the broadcast being introduced as fiction. Twelve years before Orson Welles frightened Americans with Martians, a British priest accidentally demonstrated the extraordinary power of fake news. Apparently, even in 1926, nobody bothered to read the disclaimer.

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During WWII, the BBC kept “Deep in the Heart of Texas” off factory broadcasts because workers might stop working to clap along.

Play today's puzzle: five questions, five languages, one shared result.

In 1949, Radio Quito staged a War of the Worlds broadcast so convincing that panic turned deadly when an angry crowd burned the station.

The Haven Hotel has stood at the entrance to Poole Harbour in Dorset since 1880 and was one of the first properties to be built on the exclusive sandy peninsula.

In the late 1950s, Gates Radio sought to simplify operations by developing a control storage device using a wide audio tape belt for spots, promos and PSAs.

Step back to May 1925 for a dazzling ride through silent films, Broadway hits, jazz-age musicals, and cultural moments that shaped Hollywood and beyond!

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Longtime CFRA host Lowell Green dies at 89 after five decades of community campaigns that shaped the Ottawa Valley and Canadian public life.