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1856: American educator & inventor
Booker
T. Washington was born. 1894: American aircraft designer
Lawrence
Bell, founder of Bell Aircraft (maker of the Bell X-1 the first broke the sound
barrier), was born. 1951:
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death for conspiring
to commit espionage for the Soviet Union. 1955:
Winston Churchill resigned as British prime minister. 1963: The
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission gave the Fermi Award to Robert Oppenheimer for research
in nuclear energy (after declaring him a security risk in 1954). 1976: Billionaire
Howard Hughes
died. 1989: David Letterman became first network TV series to use Dolby stereo.
2063: Zefram
Cochrane will make Earth's first warp-speed flight.
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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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