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 March 1
 1611:
John Pell, who introduced the division sign (the
obelus, ÷)
to England, was born. 1862:
Peter Barlow, who invented the Barlow lens that is commonly used
to increase optical magnification, died. 1896:
Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity when he developed the
photographic plate he left in a desk drawer and found it had fogged with the image
of the uranium compound crystals resting on it. 1932: The infant son of Charles
and Anne Lindbergh was kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, N.J.
1954: The hydrogen bomb, code-named
Castle Bravo,
was exploded in a test over the
Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. 1966: The Soviet unmanned spacecraft
Venus 3
crashed (purposely) on Venus. 1990: The controversial
Seabrook, NH, nuclear power plant won federal permission to go
on line after two decades of protests and legal struggles. 1991:
Edwin Land,
inventor of the Polaroid Land Camera, died. 2006:
Jordanhill Railway Station became the 1 millionth article on the
English Wikipedia.
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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.
Fair Use laws permit
small samples of copyrighted content.
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