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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.
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 ;-)
A couple 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.
October 25  1647: Italian physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli, who invented the barometer, died. 1789: Samuel Schwabe, who first documented the roughly 10-year sunspot cycle, died. 1825: The Erie Canal opened, linking the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. 1877: American astronomer Henry Russell, who showed the relationship between a star's brightness and its spectral type, and co-created the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, was born. 1888: U.S. explorer, and the first to make a flight over the North Pole, Richard Byrd, was born. 1910: William Higinbotham, who invented the first video game, "Tennis for Two," was born. 1934: Frank Julian Sprague, prodigious electrical design engineer, died. 1980: Floyd Bennett, who piloted the airplane that flew Admiral Byrd, was born. 1960: The Accutron 214, the world's first electronic wristwatch, went on sale from Bulova. 1962: Belgium's first nuclear powered electrical generation plant went online. | ||||||
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