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 May 11
 1811:
Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier, who calculated the likely position
of Neptune so closely that it took Johan Galle only an hour of search to find, was
born. 1875:
Harriet Quimby, the first female pilot to fly across the English
Channel, was born.1881:
Theodore
von Kármán, who designed the Bell X-1 supersonic airplane, was born. 1924: Nobel
astronomer Antony Hewish, the discoverer of pulsars, was born. 1928: Radio
station WGY, in Schenectady, NY, began America's first regularly scheduled TV broadcasts.
1934: The Dust Bowl began with strong winds stripping topsoil off of farm fields
in the Great Plains. 1946: Dr. Robert Jarvik, inventor of the first artificial heart intended
as a permanent replacement (and married to super genius IQ
Marilyn
vos Savant), was born. 1997: IBM's
Deep Blue computer defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov.
1951: Jay Forrester filed a patent application for the
matrix core memory. 1979: The VisiCalc spreadsheet program was
announced. 1997: IBM's
Deep Blue supercomputer defeated Garry Kasparov, becoming the
first computer to beat a world-champion chess player. 1998: A French mint produced
the first coins of Europe's single currency: the
Euro. 2021:
U.S. patent
#11,000,000
was awarded for a Prosthetic Heart Valve apparatus.
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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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