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  April 16
1867:
Wilbur Wright,
of airplane fame, was born. 1912: Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English
Channel. 1921: Marie Daly, America's first woman to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry,
was born. 1935: Fibber McGee and Molly premiered on NBC radio. 1946: The U.S.
launched its first captured German
V2 rocket at White Sands, NM. 1956: The first solar powered radios
went on sale. 1958: English chemist
Rosalind
Franklin, who made the image of the DNA helix structure, died. 1972:
Apollo 16 blasted off on a voyage to the moon. 1976: The
Helios-B probe made what was then the closest ever approach to
the sun at 27 million miles. 1987: The U.S. Patent Office began allowing the patenting
of new animals created by genetic engineering. 1999: President Clinton defended
NATO air strikes against Serbian targets, saying U.S. involvement in Kosovo was
a moral imperative.
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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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