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.
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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 14
Today is Valentine's Day. 1876: Alexander Bell filed an application for a patent for the telephone. 1877: American radio pioneer Greenleaf Pickard, inventor of the crystal detector, was born. 1924: International Business Machines (IBM) was born when Computing- Tabulating- Recording Company formally changed its name. 1943: German mathematician David Hilbert, of Hilbert Transform fame, died. 1950: American physicist Karl Jansky, the "Father of Radio Astronomy" who discovered the cosmic background radiation, died. 1961: Lawrencium (Lr, 103) was produced at University of CA, Berkeley. 1989: The first operational satellite of the Global Positioning System (Block II) was placed into orbit around Earth.
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