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 November 21
 1783: The first successful untethered
manned flight was made in a
hot air balloon.
1877: Thomas Edison announced the invention
of his phonograph. 1922:
Rebecca
Felton of Georgia was sworn in as the first woman to serve as a member of the
U.S. Senate. 1938: WBOE in Cleveland, OH, became first school-operated radio station.
1938: Construction of the Washington National Airport (renamed Reagan National)
began. 1942: The Alaska-Canadian Highway (Alcan Highway) across Canada was formally
opened. 1969: The first ARPANET link was established between the University of California,
Los Angeles and the Stanford Research Institute. 1985: Former U.S. Navy intelligence
analyst Jonathan Jay
Pollard was arrested and accused of spying for Israel. 1995: The
Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) closed above 5,000 for the
first time. 2006: Google stocks hit the $500 mark.
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.
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small samples of copyrighted content.
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