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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. All will eventually be either verified or removed.
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.
January 23
1849: English-born
Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in America to receive a medical degree. 1862: German mathematician
David Hilbert, of Hilbert Transform fame, was born. 1930: Clyde Tombaugh first photographed the planet Pluto. 1950:
Jerusalem became the official capital of Israel. 1960: The U.S. Navy bathyscaphe
Trieste descended to a record depth of 35,820 feet (10,750 meters) in the
Mariana Trench, in the Pacific Ocean. 1964: The first animal to human
heart transplant was performed. 1983: The
A-Team ("I pity the fool") debuted on NBC. 1996:
Java 1.0 was released with the promise of being a Write Once Run Anywhere (WORA) programming language.