On April 26, 1928, then-President Calvin Coolidge turned on the Lindbergh Beacon atop City Hall. But he wasn’t physically present. Instead he did it remotely from Washington, D.C. — via telegraph.

Uecker, a baseball icon, television and movie funnyman and Hall of Fame Milwaukee Brewers radio announcer, died Thursday at the age of 90, following a "private battle with small cell lung cancer ...