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 October 29
 1814:
Demologos
(renamed Fulton I), the first American steam powered warship, designed by
Robert Fulton, was launched in New
York Harbor. 1929: "Black Tuesday" descended upon the
NYSE, where prices collapsed amid panic selling and thousands of investors
were wiped out, and America's "Great Depression" began. 1945: The first
ballpoint pen went
on sale in the U.S. 1959:
General Mills became the first corporation to use closed-circuit television
for a multi-location meeting. 1959:
Edith Clarke,
the first woman to earn a degree in electrical engineering at MIT, died. 1969: The first message,
"login," was sent over the
ARPANET, which was renamed to be called the Internet in 1982 (the one Algore
invented). 1993: The
Council of the European Communities signed a directive to harmonize the
copyright protection term to the author's life + 70 years (was life + 50 in most countries).
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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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