June 25

Today is Half-Way to Christmas. 1903: Marie Curie went before the examination committee for her Ph.D. 1951: The first commercial color telecast took place when CBS transmitted a 1-hour special from NY to four other cities. 1970: The U.S. FCC handed down a ruling, making it illegal for radio stations to put telephone calls on the air without the permission of the person being called. 1995: Nobel Prize winner Ernest Walton, co-inventor of the first nuclear particle accelerator, died. 1910: Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau died. 1998: contact was lost with the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO).