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.
All will eventually be either verified or removed.
Please
submit
significant historical events and dates for inclusion in these lists. I will be glad to
include your name and birthday. Please do not submit your death date ;-)
February 13
1633: Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before the Inquisition for his belief that the earth revolves around the sun. 1884: Albert Gilbert, inventor of the Erector Set, was born. 1910: William Shockley, winner of the Nobel Prize for work on transistors (transfer/resistor) with with colleagues John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, was born. 1912: Robert Millikan began collecting data from his famous oil drop experiment for determining the fundamental unit of charge. 1946: The world's first electronic digital computer, ENIAC (the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator) was demonstrated at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of PA. 1956: Jan Łukasiewicz, who invented Reverse Polish Notation (RPN), died. 1960: France detonated its first plutonium bomb. 1990: Space probe Voyager 1, at the edge of the solar system, photographed the sun and six planets in one image, the first record of the solar system from space. 1997: The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) closed above 7,000 for the first time. 2000: The last original Peanuts comic strip (my personal favorite comic) was published, following Charles M. Schulz's death.
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