Today is January 7, which is the sad day that undercredited inventor Nikola Tesla dies unfortunately destitute in 1943.
Bit of a crazy man, but he had some amazing ideas.
Tesla's passing, but future Hawkeye star, Jeremy Renner is born in 1971.
Did you watch Hawkeye, it was really good, probably my favourite of the MCU shows.
Also, in 1904 - and I didn't know this, there was a standard distress call before SOS. CQD.
CQ comes from the french 'secu' - as in securite, with D for distress. (from my Ham radio days, I thought CQ was a 'looking for'... or call)
And in 1906 they adopted the German ...---... signal they used for distress, and then that became the SOS as they were more code letters. Officially SOS became the phrase used in 1908, but even as you see above, the Titanic used the old CQD code.
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