07-23-2004, 10:37 AM
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Location: Maryland
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July 23rd
1829 ~ William Burt patented the first “typewriter”.
1892 ~ Birthday of Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia.
1926 ~ Fox Film bought the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
1962 ~ Telstar relayed the first live trans-Atlantic television signal.
1972 ~ Landsat 1 launched, first Earth-resources satellite.
1982 ~ The International Whaling Commission voted to end commercial whaling by 1985-86.
1973 ~ Birthday of Monica Lewinsky, Congressional intern.
1983 ~ Gimli Glider: Air Canada flight 143 crash-landed in Gimli, Manitoba.
2004 ~ International Whaling Commission: The beginning of the end of the whaling ban.
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