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2025-12-09T14:06:54+00:00

The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles California was the location for the very first Academy Awards held on the 16th of May 1929. The awards were the brainchild of Louis B. Mayer who wanted to unite the five different sectors of the film industry. The first Academy Awards ceremony was held in the Blossom Room which is still used for prestigious events today. The awards had already been announced and the whole ceremony took little more than 15 minutes at the end of a private dinner. Douglas Fairbanks Senior hosted the event and the film Wings won two awards including Outstanding Picture.

Air Traffic Tower

Hugo Wilkie2025-09-02T14:29:39+00:00

On the 25th February 1920 the Air Ministry detailed the specification and construction of the world’s first technical building to control air traffic, the “Aerodrome Control Tower”, to be installed at Croydon Aerodrome. This was also the first time that the “Control Tower” terminology was used. The Air Ministry specification stated that the “platform of the tower to be 15 feet above ground level”, “have large windows placed in all four walls”, “with a “wind-vane to be fitted to the roof of the hut with a geared- down indicator placed inside”, “enabling the control officer to read changes of wind”. The world’s first Air Traffic Control Tower was born.