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 December 8
 Today is
Coaxial Cable Day. 1765: American inventor
Eli Whitney, whose cotton
gin revolutionized the textile industry, was born. 1864: English mathematician
George Boole,
of Boolean
algebra fame, died (Boole).
1865: French mathematician
Jacques-Salomon
Hadamard, who proved the prime number theorem, was born. 1894: Russian mathematician
Pafnuty Chebyshev, after whom the Chebyshev filter transfer function
is named, died. 1931: A patent was granted to Lloyd Espenschied and Herman Affel
for the invention of
coaxial cable, described as a "concentric conducting system."
1941: President Roosevelt delivered his "Day of Infamy" speech on the radio, following the Japanese attack
on Pearl Harbor. 1980: Beatles member
John
Lennon was assassinated. 1993: The U.S. Secretary of Defense declared that the
Global Positioning System had 24 satellites operating in their assigned orbits.
1993: NAFTA was signed into law. 1994 :A team of German scientists at the Gesellschaft
für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) facility in Germany, created element 111 named
unununium, symbol
Uuu.
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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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