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 November 7
 1867: Nobel Prize-winning chemist
Marie Marja Sklodowska Curie, discoverer of radium and polonium,
was born. 1874: Thomas Nast was the first to portray the Republican elephant.
1885: The spike was driven for the
Canadian Pacific Railway, that finally linked the Atlantic and
Pacific. 1940: The Tacoma Narrows Bridge (Galloping Gertie)
collapsed in Washington state. 1985: NASA launched
Mars
Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft. 1997: Chinese engineers completed the blocking
of the Yangtze River, the first step toward what will be the world's largest hydroelectric
dam project (Three Gorges Dam).
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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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