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1814: French physician
Joseph
Guillotin, after whom the guillotine is named, died. 1840: Englishman J.W. Draper
took the first successful photograph of the
Moon. 1865:
Thomas
Hancock, who founded the British rubber industry, died. 1923: The BBC began
its daily weather broadcasting service. 1932:
Henry Leland,
founder of Cadillac Motors, died. 1936: The glass mirror blank for the
200" Hale telescope began its journey to California. 1937:
Fred
Maytag, a pioneer of automatic washing machines, died. 1949:
Albert
Stevens, who took the first photograph of
Earth
showing its curvature, died. 1953:
Dr. Jonas Salk
announced his vaccine for polio. 1973: Women were allowed on the trading floor of
the London Stock
Exchange for the first time. 1973:
Larry Edward Page,
co-founder of Google, was born. 1974:
Edward
Condon, of radar development and Franck-Condon fame, died. 1996: Electrical
engineer and entrepreneur
David
Packard, who co-founded the Hewlett-Packard Company, died.
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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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