February 13
1633: Italian astronomer
Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before the Inquisition
for his belief that the earth revolves around the sun. 1884:
Albert Gilbert, inventor
of the
Erector Set, was born. 1910:
William Shockley, winner of the Nobel Prize for work on transistors
(transfer/resistor) with colleagues
John Bardeen and
Walter Brattain, was born. 1912:
Robert Millikan began collecting data from his famous oil drop experiment
for determining the fundamental unit of charge. 1956:
Jan Łukasiewicz,
who invented Reverse Polish Notation (RPN), died. 1960: France detonated its first
plutonium bomb.
1990: Space probe
Voyager 1, at the edge of the solar system, photographed the sun and six planets
in one image, the first record of the solar system from space. 1997: The Dow Jones Industrial
Average (DJIA) closed above 7,000 for the first time. 2000: The last original
Peanuts comic strip (my personal favorite comic) was published, following
Charles M. Schulz's death.
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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.
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