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 March 19
 On this date every year, swallows
traditionally return to the San Juan Capistrano Mission in CA. 1858: Britain's first planetarium,
the London Planetarium, opened. 1886: Aircraft manufacturer Giuseppe
Bellanca
(Citabria, Decathlon, Viking) was born. 1918: Congress approved
daylight-saving time (DST). 1932: The
Sydney
Harbour Bridge in Australia opened for traffic. 1933: The
Civilian Conservation Corps was enacted by Congress. 1987: French
physicist
Louis de Broglie, known for his research on quantum theory and
for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons, died. 1989: Boeing B-22
Osprey
VTOL aircraft made its maiden flight. 1991: Patent
#5,000,000 was issued for a method of ethanol production. 2001:
California officials declared a power alert, ordering the first of two days of
rolling blackouts. 2007: A
partial solar eclipse lined up for Asia. 2008: Sci-Fi author
Arthur C.
Clark (2001 Space Odyssey) died.
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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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