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 August 9
 Today isSmokey
the Bear Day (1944). 1678: American Indians sold the Bronx to
Jonas Bronck
for 400 beads. 1776:
Count
Amedeo Avogadro, who discovered that at the same T and P all volumes of a perfect
gas contained the same number of particles, and defined 6.022 x 1023 units per mole
of a substance, was born. 1815: The first natural gas well in the U.S. was discovered.
1819: William Morton, the first dentist to use ether (letheon) during a tooth extraction, was born. 1831: The first
steam locomotive
train began its inaugural run between Albany and Schenectady, in NY. 1859: The
passenger elevator was patented. 1892: Thomas Edison received a patent for the
two-way telegraph. 1898:
Rudolf Diesel was granted patent #608,845 for an "internal combustion
engine" the diesel
engine. 1910: The first completely self-contained
electric
washing machine was patented. 1945: During WW II, an atomic bomb (Fat Man) was dropped
on Nagasaki, Japan, effectively ending the war begun with the 1941 surprise raid
at Pearl Harbor. 1956: The first statewide, state-supported
educational television network went on the air in AL. 1976: The
U.S.S.R. launched
Luna 24, last lunar flight to date from Earth. 1985: Arthur Walker,
a retired Navy officer, was found guilty of seven counts of spying for the Soviet
Union. 1998: Chinese engineers
dynamited levees along the Yangtze River to ease the worst floods
in 44 years. 2006: American physicist
James Van
Allen, discoverer of the Van Allen radiation belts, 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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