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 June 11
 Today is
King Kamehameha Day (Hawaii). 1644:
Evangelista Torricelli
described in a letter to Michelangelo Ricci the invention of a barometer, which
he termed the "torricellian tube." 1770: Capt. James Cook, commander of the British
ship Endeavour, discovered the
Great Barrier Reef off Australia by running onto it. 1867:
Charles
Fabry, co-discoverer of the ozone layer, was born. 1895: The first patent for
a gasoline-powered automobile was issued to Charles Duryea. 1910: Oceanographer
Jacques
Cousteau was born. 1915:
Nicholas Constantine Metropolis, designer of the MANIAC computer
used to develop the atom bomb, was born. 1927: Charles Lindberg was presented the
first Distinguished
Flying Cross. 1937: Reginald Mitchell, designer of the famous Spitfire airplane that
beat back the German Luftwaffe in WWII, died. 1963: The
Mercury space capsule was patented by 7 civilians and assigned
to NASA. 1985: The USSR's Vega 1 deposited a lander on surface of Venus. 1987:
Margaret Thatcher became the first British prime minister in 160
years to win a third consecutive term of office.
Note: These
historical tidbits (see daily
list) 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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