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 June 5
1760: Johan
Gadolin, discoverer of the element
yttrium (the Y in
YIG), was born. 1765: German physicist
Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, inventor of the gyroscope,
was born. 1900: Hungarian Nobel physicist
Dennis Gabor, inventor of holography, was born. 1933: The United
States went off the
gold standard. 1938: The Bell Labs "Voder" became the first machine
to produce intelligible speech-like sounds. 1985: General Motors agreed to buy
Hughes Aircraft for more than $5 billion. 1977: The first successful
personal computer, the
Apple
II, went on sale.
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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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