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 July 24
 Today is Women Aviators Day. 1837:
English inventors Charles Wheatstone and William Cooke demonstrated the five-needle
telegraph. 1897: Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly alone over the Atlantic
Ocean, was born. 1950: The first successful rocket (a captured
V2) launch from
Cape Canaveral took place. 1954: The sound of a human voice -
that of James Trexler
- was, for the first time ever, transmitted beyond the ionosphere and returned to
Earth after reflecting off the moon (moon bounce). 1969: The
Apollo 11 astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
1974: English Nobel Prize winner
James Chadwick, discoverer of the neutron, died. 1991:
Andrew Lyne
of the University of Manchester announced finding a planet outside of solar system.
2005: Lance Armstrong won his 7th
Tour de France.
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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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