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41st year  -  N° 181                 Tuesday, 30 June 2026         Antwerpen		
Highway to Hell
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Sunday 31st of January 1954
72 years, 4 months and 30 days ago




Electrical engineer and inventor Edwin Howard Armstrong commits suicide by jumping from the thirteenth floor of his apartment at the age of 64 in New York City, New York, United States.


Armstrong was financially broken and mentally beaten after years of legal tussles with RCA over the FM patent dispute.