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  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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