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 January 21
 1901:
Elisha Gray,
who missed being labeled as the inventor of the telephone by mere hours when Alexander
Graham Bell beat him to the patent office, died. 1954: The
USS
Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, was launched. 1970: The
first wide body jet was put into service as the PanAm Boeing 747 made its first
flight between from New York's JFK Airport and Heathrow Airport in London. 1976:
The supersonic Concorde jet (SST) was put into service
by Britain and France. 1979: Neptune became the outermost planet as Pluto's highly
elliptical orbit brought it inside Neptune's. 1981: Iranian terrorists released
embassy hostages after 444 days captivity.
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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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