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 October 3
 Today is
German Reunification
Day (1990). 1830: George Brayton, who invented the first commercially produced
internal combustion
engine and developed the
Brayton cycle,
was born. 1910: Lucy Hobbs Taylor, the first woman to earn a dental degree in
America, died. 1913: President
Woodrow Wilson
signed a bill authorizing the
Federal Income Tax. 1942: The first successful launch of the German
V-2 rocket took place.
1947: The 200-inch diameter telescope lens for the
Mount Palomar Observatory was completed after 11 years of grinding
and polishing. 1950: The transistor was patented by Shockley, Bardeen and Brattain. 1952:
"Hurricane",
the first British atomic bomb, was tested becoming the third country in the world
to test such a weapon. 1971:
Lester Germer,
who along with Clinton Davisson, conducted an experiment that first demonstrated
the wave properties of the electron, died. 1999: Sony co-founder
Akio Morita died. 2006: Nokia announced its new
Wibree short-range wireless connectivity standard.
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Apr | May |
Jun | Jul |
Aug | Sep |
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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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