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 March 15
 44 B.C:
The Ides of March, Marcus Junius Brutus stabbed to death Gaius
Julius Caesar ("Et tu Brute?"). 1493:
Christopher Columbus returned to Spain, concluding his first voyage
to the Western Hemisphere. 1869: The
Cincinnati Red Stockings became the first pro baseball team. 1889:
Melville
Bissell, inventor of the carpet sweeper, died. 1906: Charles Stewart Rolls and
Frederick Henry Royce formed
Rolls-Royce. 1922: The first southern radio station (WSB, Atlanta) began broadcasting. 1937: Cook County Hospital in
Chicago established the first
blood bank. 1949:
WICU-TV began broadcasting in
Erie, PA. 1960:
Kitt Peak National Observatory was dedicated. 1962: Nobel Prize laureate
Arthur Compton, of
Compton Effect fame, died. 1985:
Symbolics computers
of Cambridge, MA, received the first Internet address ending in dot com. 1996: The
Fokker aircraft company,
maker of the Red Baron's famous triplne, declared bankruptcy.
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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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small samples of copyrighted content.
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