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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NASA launched the last space probe in the Mariner Program, Mariner 10.
Americans headed to the polls to vote for either Donald Trump or Joe Biden in the US Presidential Election.
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.
Louis Chevrolet incorporated the Chevrolet Motor Car Company.
