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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.
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 51760:
Johan Gadolin, discoverer of the element
yttrium (the Y in YIG), was born. 1765: German physicist
Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, inventor of the gyroscope, was born. 1900: Hungarian Nobel physicist
Dennis Gabor, inventor of holography, was born. 1933: The United States went off the
gold standard. 1938: The Bell Labs "Voder" became the first machine to produce intelligible speech-like sounds. 1985: General Motors agreed to buy
Hughes Aircraft for more than $5 billion. 1977: The first successful personal computer, the
Apple II, went on sale.