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Day in Engineering History Archive - June 3

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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.

June 3

Edwin White 1st American to Walk in Space. Please click here to visit RF Cafe.

1761: Henry Shrapnel, inventor of the Shrapnel Shell which exploded in the air, was born. 1864: Ransom Olds, founder of Oldsmobile, was born. 1902: Thomas Edison received a patent for a Reversible Galvanic Battery. 1942: The 4-day long Battle of Midway, which was the turning-point in the PTO, began. 1948: The 200-inch Hale reflector telescope at the Palomar Mountain Observatory in CA was dedicated. 1959: The first class graduated from the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO. 1965: Astronaut Edward White became the first American to "walk" in space, during the flight of Gemini 4. 1970: Emmett Culligan, founder of the "Hey Culligan Man" company, died. 1989: Chinese army troops began a sweep of Beijing to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrations (stay tuned tomorrow). 1990: Robert Noyce, co-inventor of the integrated circuit and nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", died.







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