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 January 30
 1925:
Douglas
Engelbart, inventor of the computer mouse, was born. 1948: Airplane pioneer
Orville Wright died. 1951: Austrian engineer
Ferdinand
Porsche, who designed the Volkswagen along with his sport scars, died. 1958:
Ernst Heinkel,
designer of the first jet-powered aircraft, died. 1964: The United States launched
Ranger 6, an
unmanned spacecraft carrying television cameras that was to crash-land on the moon.
1987: The U.S. Department of Energy announced its intention to build the world's
largest particle accelerator, called the
Superconducting
Super Collider (SSC), which was cancelled in 1995 after $2B had been spent.
1991: Nobel physicist
John Bardeen, co-inventor of the transistor along with William
Shockley and Walter Brattain, died. 2001: The Ultra Low Voltage Mobile Intel Pentium
III processor was released. 2002: Japan's last coal mine was closed due to high
production costs and cheap imports. 2005:
Iraqis voted in their country's first free election in a half-century.
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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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