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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. All will eventually be either verified or removed.
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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 25
Today is 1/2-Way to Christmas. 1903:
Marie Curie went before the examination committee for her Ph.D. 1951: The first commercial
color telecast took place when CBS transmitted a 1-hour special from NY to four other cities. 1970: The U.S. FCC handed down a ruling, making it illegal for radio stations to put telephone calls on the air without the permission of the person being called. 1995: Nobel Prize winner
Ernest Walton, co-inventor of the first nuclear particle accelerator, died. 1910: Oceanographer
Jacques Cousteau was born. 1998: contact was lost with the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). 1981: Microsoft incorporated.