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 May 29
 1919: A solar eclipse permitted
observation of the bending of starlight passing through the sun's gravitational
field, thereby confirming Albert Einstein's
general theory of relativity. 1929: Englishman Peter Higgs, of
the Higgs boson
fame, was born. 1943: Norman Rockwell's portrait of "Rosie the Riveter" appeared on the cover of "The Saturday Evening
Post." 1953:
Mount Everest was conquered as Edmund Hillary of New Zealand,
and Tensing Norgay of Nepal became the first climbers to reach the summit. 1996:
Benjamin Netanyahu won Israel's election for prime minister. 1999:
The space shuttle Discovery completed the first-ever docking with the
International Space
Station.
Note: These
historical tidbits (see daily
list) 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.
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small samples of copyrighted content.
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