The International Radiotelegraph Conference in Berlin selected “SOS” (· · · – – – · · ·) as the global standard for radio distress calls.
The SOS code was implemented internationally on July 1, 1908.
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Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah became the first elected female State Senator in the United States.
Emperor Constantius II was baptized on his deathbed hours before passing.
NASA launched the last space probe in the Mariner Program, Mariner 10.
The Soviet Union sent a dog into space aboard the spacecraft Sputnik II.
The One World Trade Center opened on the original World Trade Center site.
