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 May 5
 1809: Mary Kies was awarded the
first patent (1041X, destroyed in 1936 fire) to go to a woman, for a technique for
weaving straw with silk and thread. 1834:
William Whewell
wrote a letter to Michael Faraday suggesting the names Anode and Cathode in describing
the process of electrolysis. 1861:
Peter
Hewitt, inventor of the mercury vapor lamp, was born. 1917:
Eugene Bullard
becomes the first African-American aviator when he earned his flying certificate
with the French Air Service. 1945: Holland and Denmark were liberated from Nazi
control. 1945: The only WW II deaths of civilians on the mainland of the U.S. resulted
from a Japanese bomb dropped over Gearhart Mountain, Oregon by an unmanned balloon.
1961:
Alan Shepard became the first American in space when he made a
15 minute suborbital flight aboard the Freedom 7 spacecraft. 2000: A conjunction
of the 5 bright planets - Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn occurred. 2007:
Theodore Maiman,
who invented the (ruby) laser, died. 2010: ICANN began allowing non-Latin characters
for top-level domains.
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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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