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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.
Please submit significant
historical events and dates for inclusion in these lists. I will be glad to include your name and
birthday. Please do not submit your death date ;-)
A couple 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.
April 25  1744: Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius, after whom the temperature scale is named, died. 1792: The guillotine was first used in France to execute highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier. 1840: Siméon-Denis Poisson, mathematician and experimenter in electromagnetic theory, died. 1849: Felix Klein, mathematician and creator of the single-surfaced Klein bottle, was born. 1859: Ground was broken for the Suez Canal. 1874: Radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi was born in Bologna, Italy. 1900: Austrian-Swiss Nobel physicist Wolfgang Pauli, of Exclusion Principal fame, was born. 1901: New York became the first state to require automobile license plates - the fee was $1. 1927: Dudley Allen Buck, inventor of the cryotron switch and ferroelectric RAM, was born. 1928: Floyd Bennett, who piloted the airplane that flew Admiral Byrd, died. 1953: Dr. James D. Watson and Dr. Francis H.C. Crick suggested the double helix structure of DNA. 1961: Robert Noyce was granted a patent for the integrated circuit. 1990: The Hubble Space Telescope was deployed. | ||||||
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