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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.
Please submit significant
historical events and dates for inclusion in these lists. I will be glad to include your name and
birthday. Please do not submit your death date ;-)
A couple 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.
March 31  1596: French mathematician René Descartes, after whom the Cartesian coordinate system was named, was born. 1727: Sir Isaac Newton died. 1811: Robert Bunsen, of laboratory burner fame, was born. 1842: Henry Shrapnel, inventor of the Shrapnel Shell which exploded in the air, died. 1851: Leon Foucault demonstrated his pendulum experiment at the Pantheon of Paris. 1889: The Eiffel Tower officially opened in Paris. 1890: Nobel laureate Sir Lawrence Bragg, developer of the Bragg law of x-ray diffraction, was born. 1918: For the first time in the U.S. Daylight Savings Time went into effect. 1966: The Soviet Union launched Luna 10, which became the first spacecraft to enter a lunar orbit. 1996: Radio Canada International's final shortwave broadcast was made. 1999: Ford completed the purchase of Volvo Car and incorporated Volvo it as part of the Premier Auto Group. | ||||||
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