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   December 16
1907: The first U.S. radio broadcast
of a singer featured Eugenia Farrar, as transmitted by Lee De Forest from the Brooklyn
Naval Yard. 1912: The first U.S. postage stamp to depict an airplane was a 20-cent
Parcel Post stamp that used a
biplane carrying mail. 1944: The
Battle
of the Bulge began in Belgium, and was the final major German counteroffensive
in the war. 1945:
Giovanni Agnelli, founder of the
Fiat (Fabbrica Italiana Automobili
Torino) automobile company, died. 1947: The
transistor
was invented by American physicists John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain, and William
Shockley. 1954: Synthetic diamonds were produced at General Electric Research Laboratories.
1979: The first rocket vehicle to break the sound barrier on land reached 739.7
mph on a 3-mile test-strip at Rogers Lake, Edwards Air Force Base, CA. 1997: 700
children in Japan were hospitalized after a televised cartoon triggered a condition
called "Nintendo epilepsy.
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Note: These
historical tidbits have been collected from various sources, mostly on the Internet.
As detailed in
this article, there
is a lot of wrong information that is repeated hundreds of times because most websites
do not validate with authoritative sources. On RF Cafe, events with
hyperlinks have been verified. Many years ago,
I began commemorating the birthdays of notable people and events with
special RF Cafe logos.
Where available, I like to use images from postage stamps from the country where
the person or event occurred. Images used in the logos are often from open source
websites like Wikipedia, and are specifically credited with a hyperlink back to
the source where possible.
Fair Use laws permit
small samples of copyrighted content.
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