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 January 11
 1672:
Isaac Newton was elected to the Royal Society. 1787: The first
two moons of Uranus, Titania & Oberon, were discovered by William Herschel, six
years after he had discovered the planet itself. 1872:
George Pierce, inventor
of the quartz crystal based Pierce oscillator, was born. 1922:
Insulin was first used to treat diabetes. 1923:
Tom
Johnson, founder of the Celestron telescope company, was born. 1935: American
aviator
Amelia Earhart began a trip from Honolulu to Oakland, CA, becoming
the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean. 1941:
John (Jack) Gifford, a founder of Maxim Integrated Products and
co-founder of Advanced Micro Devices, was born. 1954:
George Cowling
became the BBC's first television weatherman. 1991: Nobel physicist
Carl Anderson, co-founder of the positron, or positive electron,
the first known particle of antimatter, died. 2000: The first leg of the
China-US Cable Network, the first undersea fiber optic cable network
to transfer voice, data, and video traffic directly between the U.S. and China,
went into service. 2009: John (Jack) Gifford, a founder of Maxim Integrated Products and
co-founder of Advanced Micro Devices, died.
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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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