WQLN NPR first signed on the air in 1973. On October 1st of that year, Eleven-year-old Timmy Lanighan of Lockport, New York, entered the Guinness Book of World Records for pogo stick jumping. Lanighan jumped 21,273 times in just under three hours.
This Day in History is presented by the Emmy-nominated history series Chronicles. The new season begins Thursday October 26 on WQLN PBS and on our TV app - Passport.