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 May 4
 1874:
Frank Conrad, owner of
more than 200 patents, developer the first commercial radio station, and coiner
of the term "broadcast," was born. 1927: The first U.S. balloon flight to exceed
an altitude of 40,000-ft was made by
Capt. Hawthorne
Gray. 1942: The
Battle
of the Coral Sea, the first sea battle to be fought entirely from the air, commenced
between American and Japanese carriers. 1967: The
Lunar Orbiter
4 was launched. 1977: Star Wars Day celebrates the beginning of an era - "May the 4th
Be with You." 1979: Conservative Party leader
Margaret Thatcher was chosen to become Britain's first female
prime minister as the Tories ousted the incumbent Labor government in parliamentary
elections. 2000: The "ILOVEYOU"
e-mail virus began its attack on computers worldwide.
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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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