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On This Day In The Year Hillary Clinton Was Born: Network News INVENTED, Pravda Blasts Marshall Plan

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Today — June 16 — was an important day in 1947, the year when Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was born.

Two milestones occurred. The first network news broadcast ever in world history occurred. Also, Pravda fired one of the first blasts in the impending Cold War (which hadn’t yet happened) by criticizing the Marshall Plan.

The DuMont Television Network introduced history’s first-ever network news program on June 16, 1947. The 15-minute program was called “Washington Report.” It appeared twice each week. The host of the show was Tristram Coffin, a retired Hollywood action movie actor.

The DuMont Network faced considerable financial problems throughout its troubled existence and eventually ceased broadcasting in 1956. At the time, Clinton was already in fourth grade.

Pravda, the Soviet Union’s Communist press organ, denounced the Marshall Plan on June 16, 1947 as well.

The Soviet newspaper called the massive American initiative to aid Western Europe in the aftermath of World War II “a plan for interference in the domestic affairs of other countries.”

Soon thereafter, on July 2, Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov would storm out of meetings with French and British diplomats over the U.S. plan to provide economic help to war-torn Europe.

The entire year when she was born was an exciting one.

The United Nations passed a resolution which would soon lead to the creation of the modern nation of Israel. The world’s first Igloo portable cooler appeared (it was metal). And Levittown, commonly considered America’s first modern suburb, sprouted outside Philadelphia.

Transistor radios were invented when she was in grade school, for example. Ronald McDonald appeared two years after she graduated from high school.

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