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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 25
1627: Irish chemist
Robert Boyle, of Boyles gas law fame, was born. 1812: English mathematician
William Shanks, who held the record for calculating
p to the most places (707) until the digital computer was developed, was born. 1881: Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and others signed an agreement to organize the
Oriental Telephone Company. 1915: Alexander Graham Bell inaugurated U.S.
Transcontinental Telephone Line. 1921:
Samuel T. Cohen, designer of the neutron bomb, was born. 1945: Grand Rapids, MI, became the first U.S. city to begin
fluoridating the drinking water. 1970: The movie
M*A*S*H premiered in theaters. 1981: The
52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived in the United States. 2004: The
Opportunity rover returned its first pictures from the Martian surface.