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  December 23
1790: French archaeologist
Jean-François Champollion, who first deciphered the
Rosetta Stone,
unlocking the language of ancient Egypt, was born. 1823: The poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" by Clement C. Moore ("'Twas the Night
Before Christmas...") was published. 1870: Thomas Edison was issued a patent for
an "Improvement in Magneto Electric Machines." 1880: Thomas Edison
incorporated the
Edison Electric Light Company of Europe.
1939: German aircraft designer
Anthony Fokker,
creator of the Red Baron's famous
DR-1 triplane, died. 1973:
Gerard Kuiper,
who discovered Miranda, a moon of Uranus, and Nereid, a moon of Neptune, and after
whom the Kuiper
Belt is named, died. 1975: The
Metric
Conversion Act of 1975 was signed into law. 1986: The experimental airplane
Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, completed the
first non-stop, around-the-world flight without refueling as it landed safely at
Edwards AFB in CA.
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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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