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 March 24
1958: Elvis Presley
joined the army. 1962: Swiss physicist
Auguste Piccard,
who pioneered high altitude balloon and deep sea vehicle research, died. 1965: Millions
watched a first-ever 15-minute live broadcast of the
Ranger 9 crashing into the moon. 1989: The
Exxon Valdez oil tanker struck a reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound and spilled
240,000 barrels of crude oil. 1992: The first Belgian astronaut,
Dirk Frimout, went into space onboard the Atlantis Space Shuttle.
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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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