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 June 26
 1824:
Lord Kelvin
(William Thompson), after whom the absolute temperature scale is named, was born.
1898: German aircraft engineer
Willy
Messerschmitt was born. 1902:
William Lear,
designer of the Lear Jet, was born. 1910:
Roy Plunkett,
inventor of Teflon, was born. 1911:
Sir Frederic
Williams, co-inventor of the CRT (the "Williams-Kilburn tube"), was born. 1948:
The Berlin Airlift began as the U.S., Britain and France started ferrying
supplies to the isolated western sector of Berlin. 1974: A package of Wrigley's
chewing gum with a bar code printed on it passed over a scanner in Troy, OH, becoming
the first product ever logged under the new
UPC computerized recognition system. 1976: The
CN
Tower in Toronto, Canada, was opened as the world's tallest free-standing structure,
at a height of 1815 feet 5 inches. 2000: Rival scientific teams completed the first
rough map of the human genetic code after a ten-year race.
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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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