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 August 18
 Today is
Women's Voting Rights Day. 1685: Brook Taylor, developer of the
Taylor Series
in mathematics, was born. 1735: The "Evening Post"
of Boston, MA, was published for the first time. 1868:
Pierre Janssen discovered helium in the solar spectrum during
eclipse. 1930:
Eastern Airlines began passenger service. 1932: Scottish aviator
Jim Mollison
made the first westbound transatlantic solo flight. 1937: The FCC issued the first
FM radio station construction permit to
W1XOJ in Paxton, MA. 1940: Canada and the U.S. established a joint
defense plan, the "Ogdensburg Agreement," against the possible enemy attacks during
World War II. 1940: The most intense day of air attacks during the
Battle of
Britain cost Germany more than 70 planes. 1940:
Walter Chrysler,
founder of the Chrysler Corporation, died. 1947:
Hewlett Packard Company was incorporated. 1958: Kirt Blattenberger,
webmaster of the RF Cafe website, was born. 1966: The first pictures of earth taken
from moon orbit by
Lunar Orbiter 1 spacecraft.
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Note: These
historical tidbits have been collected from various sources, mostly on the Internet.
As detailed in
this article, there
is a lot of wrong information that is repeated hundreds of times because most websites
do not validate with authoritative sources. On RF Cafe, events with
hyperlinks have been verified. Many years ago,
I began commemorating the birthdays of notable people and events with
special RF Cafe logos.
Where available, I like to use images from postage stamps from the country where
the person or event occurred. Images used in the logos are often from open source
websites like Wikipedia, and are specifically credited with a hyperlink back to
the source where possible.
Fair Use laws permit
small samples of copyrighted content.
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