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  December 30
1851:
Asa Candler,
whose marketing genius made Coca Cola a household name, was born. 1884: The
American Metrological
Society formed a committee to establish an efficient system of weights, measures
and physical units. 1922: Vladimir Lenin proclaimed the establishment of the
USSR. 1924:
Edwin Hubble announced the existence of other galactic systems.
1927: The first subway in the Orient, the
Tokyo
Underground Railway, was dedicated in Japan. 1947:
Alfred
Whitehead, co-author with Bertrand Russell "Principia
Mathematica," died. 1953: The first color TV sets went on sale by
Admiral for about $1,175. 2006: At a little after 6:00 am, Baghdad
time, Saddam Hussein was hanged for crimes against humanity.
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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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