{"slug": "bbc", "label": "BBC", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9531", "qid": "Q9531", "description": "British public service broadcaster", "entries": 9, "years": 9, "span": [1927, 2015], "span_label": ["1927 CE", "2015 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 5}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "london", "label": "London", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "schutzstaffel", "label": "Schutzstaffel", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "nazi-party", "label": "Nazi Party", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "south-africa", "label": "South Africa", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cameroon", "label": "Cameroon", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1927, "year_label": "1927 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "January 1", "text": "January 1 – The British Broadcasting Company becomes the British Broadcasting Corporation, when its royal charter of incorporation takes effect. 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": 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": "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": 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": 2009, "year_label": "2009 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "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"}}]}