1945 – Arthur C. Clarke began privately circulating copies of his paper “The Space-Station: Its Radio Applications” which suggested geostationary space stations could be used for worldwide television broadcasts.
http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4407/vol3/cover.pdf
1949 – Josef Carl Engressia, Jr. was born in Richmond, Virginia. He would later go by the name Joybubbles and develop a talent to whistle at 2600 Hz, allowing him to control phone switching equipment.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/20/us/20engressia.html
1961 – US President John F. Kennedy delivered a speech to Congress declaring the United States would go to the Moon.
http://history.nasa.gov/moondec.html
1989 – The first Magellan GPS NAV 1000s were shipped to retailers. They ran for a few hours on six AA batteries, and sold for $3,000.
http://mashable.com/2014/05/25/commercial-gps-25-anniversary/
1994 – CERN hosted the first international World Wide Web conference, which continued through May 27.
http://www94.web.cern.ch/WWW94/
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