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Vaknin, Sam, 1961-

"The First Book of Factoids"

Soap operas
followed in February 1947 (DuMont TV's A Woman to Remember) and the
first TV news helicopter was launched by KTLA Channel 5 in Los Angeles
on 4 July 1958.

The first patent for color television was issued in Germany in 1904.
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, the Russia-born American innovator, came up
with a complete color system in 1925. Baird himself demonstrated color
TV transmission in 1928. Various researchers at Bell Laboratories
perfected color television in the late 1920s. Georges Valenso of
France patented a series of breakthrough technologies in 1938. But
color TV became widespread only in the 1960s.

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Terrorists

Domestic terrorism is not a new phenomenon in the United States.

On March 1, 1954, Puerto Rican freedom fighters - or terrorists - led
by Lolita Lebron, opened fire in the US House of Representatives
(Congress). Five congressmen were wounded. They protested the United
States' "military occupation" of their country. The attackers were
apprehended, imprisoned and released in 1979. They are considered
heroes by the island's independence movement to this very day.


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