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 September 5
 1879:
Frank Jewett, the first
president of Bell Telephone Labs, was born. 1885: The first
gasoline pump was delivered to a gasoline dealer in Ft Wayne,
IN. 1906: Ludwig Boltzmann, after whom the Boltzmann constant (1.3806505 × 10-23 J/K)
was named, died. 1914:
Babe Ruth hit his first home run as a professional player in the
International League. 1948:
Richard
Tolman, who demonstrated electrons to be charge-carrying particles in flow of
electricity in metals, died. 1953: The first privately operated
atomic reactor
opened at the NC State School of Engineering in Raleigh, NC. 1972: Muslim guerrillas
attacked the Israeli delegation at
Munich Olympic
games, killing 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team. 1977: The "Voyager 1"
spacecraft was launched two weeks after launching its twin, "Voyager 2."
1984: The space shuttle
Discovery landed after its maiden voyage. 1995: France conducted
an underground nuclear test at the
Mururoa Atoll. 1997:
Mother Teresa died in Calcutta. 1017: Nicolaas Bloembergen, Nobel Prize winner for laser-spectroscopy,
died.
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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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