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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 24 Joule logo 1818: James Joule, discoverer of the current/resistance/heat relationship and after whom the unit of energy is named, was born. 1865: Several veterans of the Confederate Army formed a private social club called the Ku Klux Klan (U.S. Senator Robert Byrd of WV, was a KKK Exalted Cyclops when in his 30s). 1872: Scottish physicist William Rankine, an early investigator of thermodynamics who developed the Rankine Cycle, died. 1873: Johns Hopkins, endower of the college named after him, died. 1904: Billionaire Howard Hughes was born. 1906: Reginald Fessenden gave what is generally considered to be the first broadcast of entertainment by radio. 1947: The point-contact transistor, invented days earlier by American physicists John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain, and William Shockley, was presented to Bell Labs management. 1963: New York International Airport was rededicated as John F. Kennedy Airport. 1966: The unmanned Russian Luna 13 spacecraft landed on Moon. 1968: The crew of the Apollo 8 spacecraft, the first manned mission to the moon, transmitted a Christmas message from lunar orbit. 1979: The first European-built rocket, Ariane 1, successfully completed its maiden flight. | ||||||
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