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 June 12
 1851:
Sir Oliver Lodge, who perfected the radio detection coherer, was
born. 1885: Fleeming Jenkin, noted for his work in establishing units of electrical
measurement, died. 1908: The Rotherhithe-Stepney tunnel beneath the Thames was opened.
1916: Silvanus Thompson, authority on electricity, magnetism and acoustics, died.
1939: The National
Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated in Cooperstown, NY - exactly
100 years to the day on which the game was invented by Abner Doubleday. 1944: Marvin
Camras received a patent for the wire voice recorder. 1979: Bryan Allen flew the
Gossamer Albatross, man powered, across the English Channel. 1981:
"Raiders Of The Lost
Ark" premiered. 1987: President Reagan, during a visit to the divided German
city of Berlin, publicly challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall." 2009: The switchover from analog to
digital broadcast TV signals occurred.
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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