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 November 16
 1841:
Jules-Louis-Gabriel
Violle, who made the first high altitude measurement of the
solar constant
and after whom the Violle standard of luminous intensity was named, was born. 1904:
The first true electron tube, a diode thermionic valve, was patented in Great Britain by John
Ambrose Fleming. 1914: The
Federal Reserve Bank officially opened.
1915: A patent was issued for the first
Coca-Cola bottle
with the trademark curved shape. 1927: The
USS Saratoga was commissioned as the Navy's second aircraft carrier.
1965: The Russian Venera 3 spacecraft, which became the first to reach the surface of another
planet, was launched. 1973: President Nixon authorized construction of
Trans-Alaskan Pipeline. 1974: The first signal was broadcast into
space from the 1,000 foot radio telescope in
Arecibo,
Puerto Rico. 1975: Philip
Mallory, founder of the Mallory battery company, died. 1977:
Close Encounters of the Third
Kind opened in theaters. 1984: The space shuttle Discovery,
STS-51-A, returned
to Earth with the first two satellites ever plucked from space. 2004 NASA's
X-43A
scramjet set a new record of Mach 9.6.
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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