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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 5  1848: President Polk triggered the Gold Rush of '49 by confirming in an address to Congress that gold had been discovered in California. 1879: American aviation pioneer Clyde Cessna was born. 1901: German physicist and Nobel Prize winner Werner Heisenberg, famous for his Heisenberg Principle, was born. 1955: American aircraft designer Glen L(uther) Martin died. 1958: The first stretch of Britain's M6 Motorway, officially opened. 1973: Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, "Father of Radar," died. 1995: Englishman Stanley Runcorn, discoverer of earth's magnetic core reversals, died. | ||||||
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