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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.
December 16   1907: The first U.S. radio broadcast of a singer featured Eugenia Farrar, as transmitted by Lee De Forest from the Brooklyn Naval Yard. 1912: The first U.S. postage stamp to depict an airplane was a 20-cent Parcel Post stamp that used a biplane carrying mail. 1944: The Battle of the Bulge began in Belgium, and was the final major German counteroffensive in the war. 1945: Giovanni Agnelli, founder of the Fiat (Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino) automobile company, died. 1947: The transistor was invented by American physicists John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain, and William Shockley. 1954: Synthetic diamonds were produced at General Electric Research Laboratories. 1979: The first rocket vehicle to break the sound barrier on land reached 739.7 mph on a 3-mile test-strip at Rogers Lake, Edwards Air Force Base, CA. 1997: 700 children in Japan were hospitalized after a televised cartoon triggered a condition called "Nintendo epilepsy. | ||||||
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