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 1903:
Robert
Morris Page, inventor of pulse radar, was born. 1910:
Charles Rolls
became the first person to fly across the English Channel. 1930:
Charles P. "Pete" Conrad, the third human to walk on the moon
during Apollo 12, was born. 1953:
Queen Elizabeth
II took the coronation oath. 1954: The first test of a VTOL airplane took place
when a Convair XFY-1 Pogo successfully performed a vertical takeoff and landing.
1966: U.S. space probe
Surveyor 1 landed on the moon and started sending photographs
back to Earth of the Moon's surface. 1986: Regular TV coverage of U.S. Senate sessions
began. 1995: USAF pilot Capt. Scott O'Grady was shot down over Bosnia. 2003: The ESA launched
Europe's first probe (Mars Express), to another planet, Mars.
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Apr | May |
Jun | Jul |
Aug | Sep |
Oct | Nov |
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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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