June 20
 1918: The X-ray
expert Dr. Eugene W. Caldwell, died of X-ray burns in NY. 1840:
Samuel Morse was granted a patent for telegraphy signals. 1935: The
U.S. Army Air Forces established and headed by General Hap Arnold, replacing the
Army Air Corps. 1939: The world's first airplane to be propelled solely by a liquid-fuelled
rocket, the Heinkel
He-176, flew for first time. 1942: Japanese submarine
I-25 launched an attack on Fort Stevens, located on the Columbia
River in OR. 1950: Willie Mays graduated from high school and immediately signed with
the New York Giants. 1977: The Trans-Alaska Pipeline began carrying oil from the Arctic
Ocean to Prince William Sound. 1980: "Blues Brothers" with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi premiered. 1981:
Henri-Gaston Busignies, developer of HF (high frequency) direction
finding equipment, died. 1996: Westinghouse Electric agreed to buy
Infinity Broadcasting
for $4.9 billion. 2005:
Jack Kilby, inventor of the integrated circuit, died. 2006: IBM and
the Georgia Institute of Technology demonstrated the first silicon-based
transistor that operates at 500 GHz.
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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.
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