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  February 8
1677:
Jacques Cassini,
discoverer of the
Cassini Division between the A and B rings of Saturn, was born.
1834: Russian scientist
Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev, who developed the Periodic Table and
left places for undiscovered elements, was born. 1906: American physicist
Chester Carlson,
inventor of
xerography, was born. 1910: The
Boy
Scouts of America was incorporated. 1916:
Charles Kettering received a patent in for an automobile engine
starting and ignition system. 1922: President Harding had the first
radio installed
in the White House. 1974: The third and final crew of astronauts returned from the
Skylab
orbiting laboratory. 1979: Hungarian Nobel physicist
Dennis Gabor, inventor of holography, died. 1993: General Motors
sued NBC, alleging that the "Dateline NBC" program had rigged two car-truck crashes to show
that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to fires in side impact crashes (NBC settled
the lawsuit the following day). 1996: The "Telecommunications Act of 1996" authorized
the V-Chip.
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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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