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 March 3
 1703:
Robert
Hooke, who developed Hooke's Law for springs, died. 1847:
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, was born. 1851:
The U.S. Congress authorized the
3¢ piece
- it was the smallest U.S. silver coin, and reduced the rate of a
1st-class stamp from 5¢ to 3¢. 1863: Congress authorized a track
width of 4-ft 8-1/2-in as the standard for the
Union
Pacific Railroad. 1885: The
American Telephone
and Telegraph (AT&T) was incorporated in New York as a subsidiary of the
American Bell Telephone Company. 1901: Congress created
National Bureau of Standards (NIST as of 1988). 1919: The first
U.S. international airmail service began. 1923: The first edition of
Time magazine
was published. 1931: "The Star-Spangled Banner" was designated the national anthem
of the U.S. 1966: The
BBC made its first colour broadcast. 1972: The unmanned U.S. space
probe Pioneer 10 was launched, and on June 13, 1983, the spacecraft became the first
man-made object to leave the solar system. 2005: Steve Fossett completed the first
solo non-stop flight around the world without refueling in the GlobalFlyer.
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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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