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December 8
  Today is
Coaxial Cable Day. 1765: American inventor
Eli Whitney, whose cotton gin
revolutionized the textile industry, was born. 1864: English mathematician
George Boole, of
Boolean algebra
fame, died (Boole). 1865: French
mathematician Jacques-Salomon
Hadamard, who proved the prime number theorem, was born. 1894: Russian mathematician
Pafnuty Chebyshev, after whom the Chebyshev filter transfer function
is named, died. 1931: A patent was granted to Lloyd Espenschied and Herman Affel for
the invention of
coaxial cable, described as a "concentric conducting system." 1941:
President Roosevelt delivered his "Day of Infamy" speech on the radio, following the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor. 1980: Beatles member John Lennon was assassinated. 1993: The U.S. Secretary of Defense declared
that the Global Positioning System had 24 satellites operating in their assigned
orbits. 1993: NAFTA was signed into law. 1994 :A team of German scientists at the Gesellschaft
für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) facility in Germany, created element 111 named
unununium, symbol Uuu.
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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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