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  April 24
1889: The Edison General Electric
Company was organized. 1898:
Spain declared war on the United States. 1928: The
fathometer, which measures underwater depths by using a series
of electrical sounds signals and their echoes, was patented by Herbert Dorsey. 1953:
Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham
Palace. 1960: Nobel Prize winner
Max Von Laue, who discovered the diffraction of x-rays in crystals,
died. 1967: Soviet cosmonaut
Vladimir
Komarov became the first human to die during a space mission when the parachute
failed to open on Soyuz 1. 1970: The People's Republic of China launched its first
satellite, the Mao 1 (Dong Fang Hong I). 1990: Space Shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape
Canaveral, carrying visually impaired the $1.5B
Hubble
Space Telescope. 1993: An
IRA terrorist bomb devastated London.
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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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