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1776:
Friedrich
Stromeyer, discoverer of cadmium, was born. 1835:
Elisha Gray,
who missed being labeled as the inventor of the telephone by mere hours when
Alexander Graham Bell beat him to the patent office, was born.
1880: Greenwich
Mean Time (GMT) was adopted officially by the British Parliament. 1865: The
Trans Atlantic Cable being laid by
SS Great
Eastern snapped and was lost. 1909: The first
Lincoln penny
was issued. 1909: The Army Air Corps formed as Army took their first delivery from
Wright Brothers. 1922:
Alexander
Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, died. 1927: Harold Black invented the
negative feedback
amplifier. 1936: Airplane designer
Louis
Blériot, died. 1939: Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt
urging creation of an
atomic weapons research program. 1964: The Pentagon reported the
first of two attacks on U.S. destroyers by North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the
Gulf of Tonkin.
1984: The Peanuts comic strip
was picked up by the Daily Times in Portsmouth, OH, making it the first comic strip
to appear in 2,000 newspapers. 1990: Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and set the stage
for Operation Desert Storm.
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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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