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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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. Many 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. Images used in the logos are often from open source websites
like Wikipedia, and are specifically credited with a hyperlink back to the source where
possible. Fair Use
laws permit small samples of copyrighted content.
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