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 August 1
 1774:
Oxygen was isolated
from air successfully by chemist
Carl
Scheele and scientist
Joseph Priestly.
1793: The first definition was made for the
metre: 1/10,000,000 of the northern quadrant of the Paris meridian
(5,132,430toises of Paris, from the north pole to the equator). 1818:
Maria
Mitchell, the first professional female astronomer in the U.S., was born. 1831:
The
New London Bridge opened to traffic. 1907: The U.S. Army established
an
aeronautical division that later became the
U.S. Air Force. 1941: The Willys
Jeep (ala M.A.S.H.) was introduced, the one described by Times magazine as "...the
Army's most intriguing new gadget." 1943: A
PT-109 under the command of
Lt. John F. Kennedy was rammed and cut in half by the Japanese
destroyer
Amagiri. 1943: Ground was broken for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
TN, nuclear facility. 1946: The
Atomic Energy Commission was established. 1956: The first commercial
building heated by sun, the Bridgers and Paxton Office Building, opened in Albuquerque,
NM. 1995:
Westinghouse Electric Corporation struck a deal to buy
CBS for $5.4 billion. 2000: A man
in Israel become the first recipient of the Jarvik 2000, the first total artificial
heart that can maintain blood flow in addition to generating a pulse.
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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.
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