On This Day:  June 19

1934 -- U.S. Fed­er­al Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Com­mis­sion formed. Giv­en the im­pos­si­ble task of reg­u­lat­ing and en­forc­ing com­pe­ti­tion and equal­i­ty of telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions ser­vices, it has at least suc­ceed­ed in pro­vok­ing equal amounts of dis­ap­proval from ev­ery­one.