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.
All will eventually be either verified or removed.
Please
submit
significant historical events and dates for inclusion in these lists. I will be glad to
include your name and birthday. Please do not submit your death date ;-)
February 17
Engineer's Week 2008 begins today. 1817: The first gas-lit streetlights appeared on the streets of Baltimore, MD. 1843: Department store magnate 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 Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL), was born. 1952: Winston Churchill annouced that Britain had developed an atomic bomb. 1953: Baseball star/pilot Ted Williams was uninjured when his F9F jet plane was shot down in Korea. 1959: The first weather satellite, Vanguard I, was launched. 1979: China invaded Vietnam. 1996: Gary Kasparov defeated Deep Blue, IBM's chess-playing computer.
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