⚡️📡🆘 FLASHBACK - Exactly 119 years ago, on…
⚡️📡🆘 FLASHBACK - Exactly 119 years ago, on November 3, 1906, the acronym S.O.S. was adopted as the international standard for distress calls on the radio waves.
Chosen for its simplicity in Morse code (••• — — — •••), it was first used in 1909 in the United States, when operator Theodore Haubner sent out a distress call from the steamship SS Arapahoe, which was in distress off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
