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 May 22
1783: Englishman
William
Sturgeon, who devised the first electromagnet capable of supporting more than
its own weight, was born. 1849: Abraham Lincoln received a patent for the
floating
dry dock. 1859:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, of
Sherlock Holmes fame,
was born. 1891: The first public motion picture was shown in Thomas Edison's lab.
1908: The Wright Brothers registered their flying machine for a U.S. patent.
1973: Robert Metcalfe wrote a memo at Xerox describing a data transfer protocol
for what he termed the "Ethernet." 1983: My dear
wife, Melanie (Sue Goodwin), and I were married - Happy
41st Anniversary! 1990: Microsoft released Windows 3.0. 1992:
Johnny Carson hosted the "Tonight Show" for the last time, telling
his audience, "I bid you a very heartfelt good night." 1995: Two new moons were
discovered orbiting
Saturn
using the Hubble Space Telescope. 2007: The
European Space Policy was formalized as a joint effort between
the ESA and the
EU.
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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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