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 March 4
 1832: French archaeologist
Jean-François Champollion, who first deciphered the
Rosetta Stone,
unlocking the language of ancient Egypt, died. 1859 (O.S.):
Aleksandr Popov, considered
in Russia to be the inventor of radio, was born. 1881:
Richard
Tolman, who demonstrated electrons to be charge-carrying particles in flow of
electricity in metals, was born. 1822:
Jules Lissajous, the French mathematician after whom Lissajous
figures are named, was born. 1890: The
Forth
Railway Bridge was opened, spanning the Forth river between Edinburgh and Dundee,
Scotland. 1902: The
American Automobile Association (AAA) was founded in Chicago.
1915: William
Willett, who invented the concept of
Daylight Saving Time, died. 1917: Republican
Jeanette
Rankin of Montana took her seat as the first woman elected to the House of Representatives.
1930: Ex-President Calvin Coolidge dedicated the
Coolidge Dam on Gila River in AZ. 1962: The first nuclear power
plant in Antarctica began operating at
McMurdo Sound.
1976: Walter Schottky, of diode fame, died. 1977: The first Freon-cooled
Cray-1, 133 megaFLOPS supercomputer, was shipped to Los Alamos Laboratories, NM
(<20 years later, Pentium IIs beat that benchmark). 1997: President Bill Clinton
barred spending federal money on
human
cloning due to, "troubling prospects." 2006: The final attempt to communicate
with Pioneer 10 was made.
Note: These
historical tidbits (see daily
list) 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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