Day in History Archive February 17

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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. All will eventually be either verified or removed.
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February 17

Engineers Week 2008. Click here to return to the RF Cafe homepage.

Engineer's Week 2008 begins today. 1817: The first gas-lit streetlights appeared on the streets of Baltimore, MD. 1843: Department store magnate Montgomery Ward was born. 1933: Blondie Boopadoop married Dagwood Bumstead three years after Chic Young’s popular strip first debuted. 1936: Hiram Percy Maxim, co-founder of the Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL), was born. 1952: Winston Churchill annouced that Britain had developed an atomic bomb. 1953: Baseball star/pilot Ted Williams was uninjured when his F9F jet plane was shot down in Korea. 1959: The first weather satellite, Vanguard I, was launched. 1979: China invaded Vietnam. 1996: Gary Kasparov defeated Deep Blue, IBM's chess-playing computer.