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 August 21
 1789:
Augustin-Louis Cauchy,
French mathematician, was born. 1858: The famous
debates between senatorial contenders
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas began. 1878: The
American Bar Association was founded
in Saratoga, NY. 1888:
William
Burroughs of St. Louis, Missouri, received a patent on the first commercial adding
machine. 1923: The first use of electric beacons mounted on the ground to provide sight
direction for night flying was
made. 1951: The U.S. ordered construction of the world's first atomic submarine, the
Nautilus. 1958:
Hawaii
became the 50th state. 1965:
Gemini V was launched into Earth orbit with Gordon Cooper and Charles
Conrad aboard. 1972:
Don Cameron became the first person to pilot a hot air balloon across
the Alps. 1991: A hard-line coup against Soviet President
Mikhail Gorbachev
collapsed in the face of a popular uprising led by Russian federation President
Boris Yeltsin.
1993: Contact was lost with the Mars Observer spacecraft. 1996:
Netscape browser 3.0
was released. 2024: The next
total solar eclipse (April 8) will be visible from North America,
and the path of totality will pass through my yard!
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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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