Queen Elizabeth II Coronation
The birth of international television
Today in 1953, The New York Times described the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II the previous day as “the birth of international television.”
The coronation was the first to be televised in full and the worldwide television audience for the coronation was estimated to be 277 million.
Twenty-seven million people across Britain watched the event live on the…
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