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 August 28
 Today is
I Have a Dream Day. 1789:
Sir William Herschel discovered Saturn's moon,
Enceladus.
1830: The first race between a locomotive (the
Tom Thumb) and a horse-drawn vehicle held between Relay and Baltimore,
MD, a nine mile stretch (the horse won). 1845: The first issue of the
Scientific
American was published by Rufus Porter. 1877:
Charles Rolls, co-founder of the Rolls-Royce company, was born.
1883: The first controlled flight in a glider was made by
John Montgomery at Wheeler Hill, CA. 1907: The "American
Messenger Company" was started by two teenagers Jim Casey and Claude Ryan -
the company's name was later changed to "United Parcel
Service." 1919:
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, electrical engineer and co-inventor of
the CAT
scan machine, was born. 1919: The International Air Traffic Association (IATA) was formed at The
Hague, Holland. 1922: The first commercial to be
aired on the radio was broadcast. 1939: The first successful flight
of a jet-propelled airplane occurred with the German
Heinkel He 178. 1964: The Beatles appeared on the cover of
Life magazine. 2007: Human and solar powered flight pioneer
Paul MacCready died.
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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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