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Day in History Archive - July 24

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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. 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 ;-)

July 24

Today is Women Aviators Day. 1837: English inventors Charles Wheatstone and William Cooke demonstrated the five-needle telegraph. 1897: Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly alone over the Atlantic Ocean, was born. 1938: NesCafé instant coffee was commercially introduced in Switzerland by the Nestlé company. 1950: The first successful rocket (a captured V2) launch from Cape Canaveral took place. 1954: The sound of a human voice - that of James Trexler - was, for the first time ever, transmitted beyond the ionosphere and returned to Earth after reflecting off the moon (moon bounce). 1969: The Apollo 11 astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean. 1974: English Nobel Prize winner James Chadwick, discoverer of the neutron, died. 1991: Andrew Lyne of the University of Manchester announced finding a planet outside of solar system. 2005: Lance Armstrong wins his 7th Tour de France. 2006: American Floyd Landis won the Tour de France.

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