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Day in History Archive - November 25

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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. All will eventually be either verified or removed.

Please submit significant historical events and dates for inclusion in these lists. I will be glad to include your name and birthday. Please do not submit your death date ;-)

November 25

1792: The Old Farmer's Almanac was first published. 1844: Karl Benz, a German mechanical engineer who designed built the world's first practical auto powered by an internal-combustion engine, was born. 1905: The first U.S. advertisement for a radio receiver, the "Telimco Wireless Telegraph Outfit," appeared in this day's issue of Scientific American. 1920: The first play-by-play broadcast of a football game (between the University of Texas and Texas A&M) was aired in College Station, TX. 1948: cable television was invented by Ed Parsons. 1958: Charles Kettering, co-founder of Delco Products and inventor of the electric starter and spark plugs for cars, died. 1973: The maximum speed limit in the U.S. was cut to 55 mph as an energy conservation measure during oil embargo. 1975: Robert Ledley granted a patent for a "diagnostic X-ray systems," known as CAT scans.

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