February 17
 1843: Department
store magnate Aaron Montgomery Ward was born. 1933:
Blondie Boopadoop
married Dagwood
Bumstead three years after Chic Young's popular strip first debuted. 1936:
Hiram Percy Maxim,
co-founder of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), died. 1953: Baseball star/pilot
Ted
Williams was uninjured when his F9F jet plane was shot down in Korea. 1959: The first
weather satellite, Vanguard
II, was launched. 1979: China invaded Vietnam. 1996: Gary Kasparov defeated
Deep Blue,
IBM's chess-playing computer.
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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.
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