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1838:
Cleveland Abbe,
known as "the father of the U.S. Weather Bureau," was born. 1888: German optician
Carl Zeiss,
of precision optics fame, died. 1924: American computer scientist
John Backus,
inventor of the FORTRAN
language (FORmula TRANslation), was born. 1942: American physicist
Peter Schultz,
who is credited for inventing the first commercially viable optical fiber, was born.
1956: The USS Gyatt was recommissioned as the first guided missile destroyer.
1967: Dr.
Christiaan Barnard performed the first human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky,
who lived 18 days with the new heart. 1973:
Pioneer 10
passed Jupiter in the first fly-by of an outer planet. 1992: British engineer
Neil Papworth sent the world's
first text message (SMS). 1999: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) lost communications
with the
Mars Polar Lander moments before impact.
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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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