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 July 3
 The
Dog Days of Summer begin. 1863: The
Battle of Gettysburg Pennsylvania ended in a major victory for North. 1886:
Karl Benz drove the first automobile in the world in Mannheim,
Germany, reaching a top speed of 10 mph. 1928: The first
colour television transmission was accomplished by John Logie
Baird in London. 1929: Foam rubber was developed at the Dunlop Latex Development
Laboratories in Birmingham, England. 1930: Congress created the
U.S. Veterans Administration. 1954: Food rationing ended in Great
Britain almost 9 years after the end of World War II. 1956: President Eisenhower
authorized the CIA's first U-2 flight over Russia. 1976: Israel launched rescue
of Air France crew & passengers being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian
hijackers. 1997: Lockheed Martin Corporation announced it was buying Northrop Grumman
Corporation. 1998: A U.S. district court ruled that encryption software did not
qualify for protection under the first Amendment.
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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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