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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.
Please
submit significant
historical events and dates for inclusion in these lists. I will be glad to include your name and
birthday. Please do not submit your death date ;-)
A couple 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.
July 24
Today is Women Aviators Day. 1837: English inventors
Charles Wheatstone and William Cooke demonstrated the five-needle telegraph. 1897:
Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly alone over the Atlantic Ocean, was born. 1938:
NesCafé instant coffee was commercially introduced in Switzerland by the Nestlé company. 1950: The first successful rocket (a captured
V2) launch from
Cape Canaveral took place. 1954: The sound of a human voice - that of
James Trexler - was, for the first time ever, transmitted beyond the ionosphere and returned to Earth after reflecting off the moon (moon bounce). 1969: The
Apollo 11 astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean. 1974: English Nobel Prize winner
James Chadwick, discoverer of the neutron, died. 1991:
Andrew Lyne of the University of Manchester announced finding a planet outside of solar system. 2005: Lance Armstrong won his 7th
Tour de France.