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  September 2
1752: This was the last day of the
Julian Calendar
in Great Britain and the British colonies - the
Gregorian Calendar designed to correct the extra leap year day
problem went into effect the next day with tomorrow being September 14, hence 11
days were dropped. 1869:
Hiram Percy
Maxim, co-founder of the Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL), was born. 1910:
Blanche Scott, the first woman pilot in the U.S., made a solo
flight at Lake Keuka. 1944: President George H.W. Bush was shot down at Chichi Jima
island, in his
Avenger aircraft. 1945: Japanese officials signed the act of unconditional
surrender (VJ Day). 1948:
Christa McAuliffe, the first female Shuttle astronaut who died
in the Challenger accident, was born. 1969: NBC-TV canceled "Star Trek" - the show had debuted on September 8, 1966. 1973:
English writer J. R. R. Tolkien, author of "The Hobbit" and "Lord of the Rings,"
died. 1987: Philips introduced the
CD-video. 1985:
73 years after sinking off the Newfoundland coast, the wreckage of the
Titanic was located. 1998: Pilots for Canada's largest airline
launched their first strike in
Air Canada's history. 2001:
Dr. Christiaan
Barnard, who performed the first human heart transplant, 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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