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 June 27
 1806:
Augustus
De Morgan, who formulated De Morgan's laws for Boolean algebra, was born. 1901:
Merle Tuve
who first used pulsed radio waves to explore the ionosphere, was born. 1932: U.S.
Bureau of Standards scientist
Louis
Austin, who pioneered long-range radio broadcasts, died. 1941: The BBC began
using the first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony as a morale-boosting motif
(in Morse Code, "dit-dit-dit dahhh" stands for the letter "V" as in "Victory").
1950: President Truman ordered the Air Force and Navy into the
Korean conflict. 1954: The world's first
atomic power station began producing electricity in Obninsk, USSR.
1962: Ross Perot began
Electronic
Data Systems (EDS). 1976: Palestinian extremists hijacked an
Air France
plane in Greece with 246 passengers and 12 crew onboard. 1978: The first pen with
truly erasable ink, the Gillette Eraser Mate, was invented. 1983:
Maxie Anderson,
who co-piloted the first transatlantic balloon flight on the
Double Eagle
II, died.
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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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