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  December 4
1791: Britain's
Observer,
the oldest Sunday newspaper in world, was first published. 1798: Italian physician
Luigi Galvani,
after whom the word "galvanic" is named, died. 1850: Englishman
William Sturgeon,
who devised the first electromagnet capable of supporting more than its own weight,
died. 1913: Robert Alder, inventor of the TV remote control, was born. 1923:
WEAF radio (660 AM, NY) began broadcasting
Eveready Hour.
1965: NASA launched Gemini 7 with Air Force Lt. Colonel Frank Borman and Navy Commander
James A. Lovell aboard. 1973: Pioneer 11 passed within 34,000 km of Jupiter. 1978:
Samuel Goudsmit,
who along with George Uhlenbeck, conceived of the concept of electron spin, died.
1991: Pan American World Airways ceased operations. 1994: Netscape and
Sun Microsystems announced plans to develop
JavaScript. 1998:
Unity, the second
module of the International Space Station, was launched.
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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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