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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 4 1791: Britain's Observer, the oldest Sunday newspaper in world, was first published. 1798: Italian physician Luigi Galvani, after whom the word "galvanic" is named, died. 1850: Englishman William Sturgeon, who devised the first electromagnet capable of supporting more than its own weight, died. 1913: Robert Alder, inventor of the TV remote control, was born. 1923: WEAF radio (660 AM, NY) began broadcasting Eveready Hour. 1955: American airplane designer Glenn L. Martin died. 1965: NASA launched Gemini 7 with Air Force Lt. Colonel Frank Borman and Navy Commander James A. Lovell aboard. 1973: Pioneer 11 passed within 34,000 km of Jupiter. 1978: Samuel Goudsmit, who along with George Uhlenbeck, conceived of the concept of electron spin, died. 1991: Pan American World Airways ceased operations. 1994: Netscape and Sun Microsystems announced plans to develop Javascript (originally called LiveScript). 1998: Unity, the second module of the International Space Station, was launched. | ||||||
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