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 March 8
 1618: Johann Kepler formulated his Third Law
of Planetary Motion. 1854: U.S. Commodore
Matthew Perry made his second landing in Japan, and within a month
had concluded a treaty with the Japanese. 1862: The Confederate ironclad
CSS Virginia
(built upon the USS Merrimack's hull) was launched. 1879: Otto Hahn, co-discoverer
of nuclear fission, was born. 1917:
Count
Ferdinand von Zeppelin, of airship fame, died. 1946:
Frederick
Lanchester, automobile and aeronautics pioneer who built the first British petrol
automobile, died. 1965: The United States landed about 3,500 Marines in
South Vietnam - the first of many. 1974: The newly renamed
Charles de Gaulle International Airport began service. 1979: Volcanoes
- the first active in the solar system other than Earth - on
Io were discovered
by Voyager 1. 1983: President Ronald Reagan made his famous "Evil Empire" speech.
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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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