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.
All will eventually be either verified or removed.
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significant historical events and dates for inclusion in these lists. I will be glad to
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April 19
1831: German physicist Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, inventor of the gyroscope, died. 1877: Ole Evinrude, of outboard motor fame, was born. 1906: Nobel laureate Pierre Curie, who along with his wife, Marie, discovered spontaneous radioactivity in radium and polonium, died. 1948: The ABC television network went on the air for the first time. 1961: My lovely wife, Melanie, was born - Happy Birthday! 1975: India launched its first satellite, Aryabhata, with aid from the USSR. 1989: Pro-Democracy demonstrations began in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. 1993: Attorney General Janet Reno ordered the raid on the Branch-Davidian compound in Waco, TX, that resulted in the death of 86 men, women and children. 1995: A truck bomb, driven by Timothy McVeigh and an unidentified passenger, exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, and injuring 500.
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