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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 9 1793: Jean Pierre Blanchard, using a hot-air balloon, flew between Philadelphia, PA, and Woodbury, N.J. 1848: English astronomer Caroline Herschel, the first woman to discover a new comet, died. 1894: "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" was released in movie theaters. 1939: The discovery of element Fr (francium) was reported by French chemist Marguerite Perey. 1951: The United Nations headquarters building in NYC officially opened. 1958: Willis Whitney, who founded the General Electric research laboratory, died. 1968: The Surveyor 7 space probe made a soft landing on the moon, marking the end of the American series of unmanned explorations of the lunar surface. 1986: Kodak exited the instant camera business after losing a patent lawsuit with Polaroid. 1998: Scientists announced the discovery that some galaxies are actually accelerating, flying apart at ever faster speeds. | ||||||
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