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21 Aug 1947

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Background

Carl Giammarese, guitarist with American Sunshine pop group The Buckinghams who had the 1967 US No.1 single ‘Kind Of A Drag’ and became one of the top selling US acts of 1967.

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Historical Facts

20 Aug 1992

First around-the-world telegram sent, 66 years before Voyager II launch On August 20, 1911, a dispatcher in the New York Times office sends the first telegram around the world via commercial service. Exactly 66 years later, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) sends a different kind of message–a phonograph record containing information about Earth for extraterrestrial beings–shooting into space aboard the unmanned spacecraft Voyager II.

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