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 June 16
 1867:
Joseph Lister in Glasgow, Scotland, became the first surgeon to
perform surgery under antiseptic conditions. 1903:
Ford Motor
Company was incorporated, and its ten employees began producing the company's
first car, the Model A. 1911:
Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R), the precursor
to International Business Machines (IBM), was incorporated. 1930:
Elmer
Sperry, inventor of the gyrocompass, died. 1963:
Lt. Valentina Tereshkova became the first Russian woman to go
into the Earth orbit in her spaceship Vostok VI. 1977: German rocket pioneer
Wernher
von Braun died. 1986: The final flight of the B-47 Stratojet occurred on its
way to Castle AFB for becoming a permanent display. 2000: Los Alamos National Laboratory
in NM discovered that two computer hard drives containing nuclear secrets were missing
due to lax security.
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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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