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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.
July 18  0064: The Great Fire of Rome began, as Emperor Nero reportedly fiddled on the roof. 1635: Robert Hooke, who developed Hooke's Law for springs, was born. 1853: Hendrik Lorentz, after whom the Lorentz force in electromagnetism is named, was born. 1941: The Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter made its first flight, only with propeller power. 1955: The first electrical power generated from a nuclear station was sold commercially by the Utah Power and Light Company. 1958: Henri Farman, the airplane designer who invented ailerons, died. 1963: The first implantation of an intrathoracic left artificial ventricle in a human being was made. 1968: The Intel Corporation was incorporated by Noyce and Moore as N M Electronics. 1969: A car driven by Senator Edward Kennedy plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island near Martha's Vineyard, leaving Mary Jo Kopechne to drown. 1980: India became the 6th nation to place a satellite, the Rohini-1, in orbit. 1997: Eugene Shoemaker, of Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 fame, died. 1999: The RFCafe.com domain name was registered. |
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