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 October 18
 1799:
Christian Schönbein, who discovered and named
ozone (O3) for its
peculiar smell (ozo is Greek for smell), was born. 1876: The state of
Alaska was officially transferred to America by
 Russia. 1871: English mathematician
Charles Babbage,
whose difference engine is considered the first programmable calculator, died. 1892:
The first long-distance telephone line was opened between Chicago and New York.
1922: The
British Broadcasting Company was formed, and five years later
became the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). 1931: American inventor
Thomas Alva Edison
died at age 84. 1945: The
International Military Tribunal portion of the Nazi War Crimes
trial opened in Nuremberg. 1954: TI announced the world's first transistor radio,
the Regency TR-1. 1959: The USSR announced an unmanned space vehicle,
Luna 3,
had taken first pictures of far side of the moon. 1962:
Dr. James Watson of the U.S.,
Dr. Francis Crick &
Dr. Maurice Wilkins of U.K. won the Nobel Prize for Medicine and
Physiology for work in determining double-helix molecular structure of DNA. 2004:
Scientists at UC Irvine announced the development of the world's longest electrically
conducting
nanotubes. 2006: Microsoft released
Internet
Explorer 7. 2012: Antennalyzer inventor
Wendell C. Morrison died.
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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