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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.
June 18  1815: Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo. 1873: Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote. 1939: Co-discoverer of the radio reflecting properties of the ionosphere in the upper atmosphere (the Kennelly-Heaviside layer), and first to apply complex number analysis to AC circuits, Arthur Kennelly, died. 1940: Winston Churchill delivered his "Finest Hour" speech in the House of Commons. 1942: The U.S. Navy commissioned its first black officer, Harvard University medical student Bernard Whitfield Robinson, into the Reserves. 1959: The first telecast received from England was broadcast in the U.S. over NBC-TV. 1965: The first large solid-fuel rocket - a Titan 3C - was launched into orbit. 1983: Dr. Sally Ride became the first American woman in space, aboard the space shuttle Challenger. 2005: The EU agreed upon its first constitution. 2011: Analog design legend Bob Pease died. | ||||||
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