November 24
1874: American farmer Joseph Glidden
was awarded a patent for the first
barbed wire. 1903: The first patent for an automobile
electric self-starter was issued to Clyde Coleman of NY City.
1916: Prolific inventor Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, who developed the
Maxim (machine)
gun and also was the father of ARRL founder Hiram Percy Maxim, died. 1922: NiMH Battery Inventor
Stanford
Ovshinsky was born. 1963:
Lee Harvey
Oswald, the man accused of murdering President Kennedy the day before, was shot
to death in a Dallas police station by Jack Ruby. 1969:
Apollo 12, the second manned moon mission, returned to Earth.
1971: D.B. Cooper
parachuted from a Northwest Airlines 727 with $200,000 and was never captured or
found. 1998:
AOL announced its acquisition of Netscape and a strategic partnership
with Sun Microsystems.
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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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