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 July 29
 1870: America's first asphalt
pavement was laid in Newark, N.J. 1909:
Georges
Legagneux made the first airplane flight in Sweden in his Voisin biplane. 1914:
The first transcontinental telephone service was inaugurated when two people
held a conversation between New York, NY and San Francisco, CA. 1914:
Baron Marcel Bich,
who built his business empire by creating throwaway Bic pens, razors and lighters,
was born. 1920: The first transcontinental airmail flight relay from New York to
San Francisco took place. 1927: The first iron lung (electric respirator) was installed
at Bellevue hospital in NY for the post war polio epidemic. 1952: The first transpacific
non-stop flight by jet occurred with a SAC
RB-45C.
1958: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was authorized
by the U.S. Congress. 1979: Pioneer 11 flew past Saturn and returned pictures revealing
the unknown F ring. 1982:
Vladimir Zworykin, inventor of the iconoscope and known as "the
father of television," died.
Note: These
historical tidbits (see daily
list) 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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small samples of copyrighted content.
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