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 September 11
 September
11, 2001: 19 members of the extremist Muslim terrorist group al-Qaeda, used
four hijacked aircraft to crash into the twin World Trade Center buildings, the
Pentagon, and a field in Shanksville, PA. The final death toll includes nearly 3000
souls on the planes, in the ground targets, and rescue personnel. Many countries
have joined the fight against terrorism, many appease out of
 cowardice, and
many actively abet the enemy. We build up, they tear down. We spread freedom, they
spread tyranny.
 We heal
the sick, they kill and maim. Every citizen of the world pays the price in lost
opportunity due to resources expended fighting the terrorists. We shall defeat this
enemy both from without and from within - no apologies.
1816: German optician
Carl Zeiss, of precision optics fame, was born. 1845:
Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot, who created a telegraphic code that
eventually replaced Morse Code, and after whom the term "baud" is named, was born.
1884: Harvey
Fletcher, who first demonstrated
 stereophonic
sound, was born. 1937: Astronaut
Robert Crippen, who piloted the first Space Shuttle, Columbia,
was born. 1946: The first mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation
took place between Houston, TX, and St. Louis, MI. 1997: The
Mars Global
Surveyor went into orbit around Mars.
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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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