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 August 12
 1865:
Joseph Lister
(hence Listerine
mouthwash) became the first surgeon to use disinfectant during an operation. 1877:
Thomas Edison invented the phonograph and made the first sound recording. 1882:
Vincent
Bendix, who manufactured aircraft and automobile systems, was born. 1887:
Erwin Schrödinger, the famous physicist with the dead cat (maybe),
was born. 1896: Gold was discovered in the Klondike River in the Northwest Territories
of Canada. 1957: My sister, Gayle, was born - Happy Birthday! 1953: The
Soviet Union detonated its first hydrogen bomb. 1957:
Lt. Cmdr. Don Walker landed a Skyknight on USS Antietam in first
test of an Automatic Carrier Landing System. 1957: My older sister, Gayle, was born
- Happy Birthday! 1960: Echo One, the first balloon satellite, was launched by the U.S.
from Cape Canaveral, FL. 1962:
Vostok 3
and Vostok
4 astronauts were the first two humans in space at the same time. 1946: President
Harry Truman signed a bill establishing the National Air Museum, which eventually
became the
National Air and Space Museum - the most visited museum in the
world. 1977: The first test glide of the
Space Shuttle Enterprise occurred. 1981: IBM introduced the
IBM PC personal computer and PC-DOS 1.0. 1989:
William Shockley, winner of the Nobel Prize for work on transistors
(transfer/resistor) with with colleagues
John Bardeen and
Walter Brattain, died. 2004:
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, electrical engineer and co-inventor of
the CAT
scan machine, died.
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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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small samples of copyrighted content.
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