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 August 23
 1609: The telescope was first demonstrated
by
Galileo. 1875:
William Eccles,
who coined the term "diode," was born. 1806:
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, after whom the unit of charge is named, died. 1899:
The first ship-to-shore wireless message announced the arrival of the U.S. Army ship
Sherman.
1914: The Emperor of Japan
declared war on Germany. 1933:
Robert Curl, after whom the vector calculus operation is not named, but who did co-discover
the first
Fullerene
carbon cluster, was born. 1939: Germany and the Soviet Union sign a
non-aggression pact.
1977: Bryan Allen won the
Kremer Prize for the first human-powered flight by pedaling the
Gossamer Condor at least a mile. 1987: In an event called the "Union
of Great Minds," Robert Jarvik (inventor of the artificial heart) and
Marilyn vos Savant (IQ of 228,
syndicated columnist) were married. 1990: Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein appeared on state
television with
western hostages. 1999: The
Dow Jones closed at 11,210, within 1% of where it
was in 2006 after recovering from the Muslim extremist terrorist attack on
9/11/2001.
2001: Sir Fred Hoyle,
the astronomer who coined the term "Big Bang," 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.
Fair Use laws permit
small samples of copyrighted content.
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