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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.
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 26 0066: The 5th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet occurred. 1875: George Green patented what is essentially the modern electric dental drill for sawing, filing, dressing and polishing teeth. 1886: Karl Benz patented the first auto powered by an internal combustion engine. 1891: Nikolaus Otto, developer of the 4-cycle internal combustion engine, died. 1911: Nobel physicist Polykarp Kusch, who determined that the magnetic moment of the electron is greater than its theoretical value, was born. 1911: Glenn Curtiss piloted the first successful seaplane in San Diego. 1921: Sony co-founder Akio Morita was born. 1942: The first U.S. force in Europe during WW II went ashore in Northern Ireland. In 1926: John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of a true television system in London. 1950: India became a republic. 1998: Intel launched the 333 MHz Pentium II chip. 2006: Western Union sent its final telegram system. | ||||||
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