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 July 21
 1875: Mark Twain's "The Adventure
of Tom Sawyer" copyright was registered. 1904: The 4,607-mile
Trans-Siberian
railway was completed after 13 years of work. 1930: The
Veterans Administration of the U.S. was established. 1968: Arnold
Palmer became the first golfer to make a million dollars in career earnings. 1969:
Apollo 11 astronauts
Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin blasted off from the moon after 21-1/2 hours
on the surface. 1970: The Aswan Dam in Egypt was completed after 18 years of work. 1977:
The first shipment of crude oil arrived at the U.S. DoE's
Strategic Petroleum Reserve in LA. 1994:
Tony Blair became the youngest Labour leader since World War II.
1997: The "USS Constitution," which defended the US during the War of 1812,
set sail under its own power for first time in 116 years. 1998:
Alan Shepard,
America's first man in space and one of only 12 humans who walked on the Moon, died.
1999: After 38 years at the bottom of the Atlantic, the
Liberty Bell 7 Mercury capsule was recovered. 2000: An international
collaboration of scientists at the
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced the first direct
evidence for the tau neutrino. 2000: Astronomers at the
University of Arizona
announced that they had found a 17th moon orbiting Jupiter.
Note: These
historical tidbits (see daily
list) 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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