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 1786:
Thomas
Hancock, who founded the British rubber industry, was born. 1792: The U.S. established
the military draft. 1847: The
rubber tire (for a carriage) was patented in the U.S. by Robert
W. Thompson, of England. 1886: Pharmacist Dr. John Stith Pemberton produced the
syrup for Coca-Cola, and carried a jug of the new product down the street
to Jacobs' Pharmacy and placed it on sale for five cents a glass as a soda fountain
drink. 1919: The first transatlantic flight took off by a navy seaplane. 1926: The
first flight over North Pole was made by Bennett and Byrd. 1945: Victory was won
in Europe (V-E Day), as Winston Churchill officially announced the end of
the war with Germany. 1952: Mad Magazine debuted. 1961: The first practical seawater
conversion plant in the U.S. was opened in Freeport, TX. 1962: The era of the trolleybus
in London ended. 1999: The first female cadet graduated from The Citadel military
college.
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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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