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 July 12
 1854: George Eastman, of
Eastman-Kodak
fame, was born. 1861: American educator, scientist, chemist, inventor and botanist,
George
Washington Carver, was born. 1895:
R. Buckminster
Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome and after whom the Buckeyball (the
Buckminsterfullerene)
was named, was born. 1910:
Charles Rolls, co-founder of the Rolls-Royce company, died. 1913:
Physics Nobel laureate
Willis Lamb, who determined fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum,
was born. 1934:
Ole Evinrude,
of outboard motor fame, died. 1941: Moscow was bombed by the German Luftwaffe for
the first time. 1944: The
RAF 616 squadron became the first air force to use jet aircraft
in operational service. 1952:
Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned from the army to begin his presidential
campaign. 1960: The first
Etch-A-Sketch went on sale. 1982: The last of the distinctive
looking Checker
taxicabs rolled off the assembly line in Kalamazoo, MI.
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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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