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 January 31
 1933: The first episode of the
''Lone Ranger'' radio program was broadcast on station WXYZ in Detroit.
1950: Development of the
hydrogen fusion bomb (H-bomb) was publicly announced by U.S. President
Truman. 1958: The U.S. entered the space age by launching the first successful orbiting
satellite, Explorer
1, almost four months after the launch of Sputnik by the USSR. 1958: James Van
Allen's theory of the presence of what became known as the
Van
Allen Radiation Belt was confirmed by Explorer 1. 1961:
Ham the chimpanzee became the first primate in space when launched
aboard a Mercury-Redstone 2 rocket. 1971:
Apollo 14 blasted off for the moon. 1983: British drivers were
first required to "buckle-up." 1990:
McDonald's
opened its first restaurant in Moscow. 2005:
SBC Communications on announced plans to acquire AT&T for
$16 billion. 2011: Helicopter and guitar pioneer
Charles Kaman
died.
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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.
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small samples of copyrighted content.
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