September 10
1892:
Arthur Compton, who won a Nobel Prize for his discovery of the
Compton
Effect, where x-ray wavelengths change when colliding with electron in metal, was born.
1898: Waldo Semon, the
inventor of PVC plastic, was born. 1934:
Maxie
Anderson, who co-piloted the first transatlantic balloon flight on the
Double Eagle II,
was born. 1935: "Popeye" was heard on NBC radio for the first time. 1939: Canada
declared war on Germany. 1953: Swanson began selling its first "TV dinner."
1979: President Jimmy Carter granted
clemency
to four
Puerto Rican nationalists who had been imprisoned for an attack on the U.S.
House of Representatives in 1954 and an attempted assassination of President Truman in 1950.
1984: Jerome Hunsaker, who in 1916 was awarded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT)
first Ph.D. in aeronautical engineering, died. 1984:
Alec Jeffreys discovered
x-ray fingerprinting. 1993: "The
X-Files" premiered on Fox Television. 1999: 11
FALN terrorists were set free from prison following clemency from President
Clinton.
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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.
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