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Day in Engineering History Archive - December 31
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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. All will eventually be either verified or removed.
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.
1719: English astronomer John Flamsteed, who established the Greenwich Observatory, died. 1857: Britain's Queen Victoria decided to make Ottawa the capital of Canada. 1879: Thomas Edison first publicly demonstrated his electric incandescent light in Menlo Park, NJ. 1905: Aleksandr Popov, considered in Russia to be the inventor of radio, died. 1935: A patent was issued for the game of Monopoly, assigned to Parker Brothers. 1940: French biophysicist Jacques-Arsène d' Arsonval, who invented the reflecting moving-coil galvanometers used to measure weak electric currents, died. 1974: Private U.S. citizens were allowed to buy and own gold in bullion for the first time in more than 40 years (high of $875/oz. in 1980, currently around $600/oz). 1991: The USSR was officially dissolved. 1995: The final Calvin and Hobbes comic strip was published - reruns are not allowed. 1997: Intel cut price of Pentium II-233 MHz from $401 to $268. 2004: Taipei 101, the world's tallest skyscraper, was fully opened.
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