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 1752:
Ben Franklin's kite-flying experiment proved lightning and electricity
were related. 1785:
Balloonists de Rozier and Romain died in world's first fatal aviation
accident. 1844: Charles Goodyear was granted a patent for the process vulcanizing
process that strengthens rubber. 1877: Henry O. Flipper became the first African
American to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. 1919:
Capt. John Alcock and Lt. Arthur W. Brown won $50,000 for successfully
completing the first, non-stop trans-Atlantic plane flight. 1919: Helicopter and
guitar pioneer Charles Kaman was born. 1924: Ford Motor Company manufactured
its 10 millionth Model-T automobile. 1924:
Radio Bloemendaal
(Netherlands) began broadcasting. 1985: National
Justice
for Janitors Day was first celebrated. 1992: The first Berlin Air Show in 60
years was held. 1995:
John
Atanasoff, who was belatedly credited as the builder of the first electronic
digital computer (the
Atanasoff-Berry
Computer, ABC), 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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