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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.
March 23  1775: American revolutionary Patrick Henry declared, "...give me liberty, or give me death!" In 1840: Englishman J.W. Draper took the first successful photograph of the Moon. 1857: The world’s first passenger safety elevator, by Elisha Otis, went into service in a store in New York City. 1873: Richard Proctor, who first proposed that lunar craters are caused by meteors rather than volcanic actions, was born. 1903: The Wright brothers obtained an airplane patent. 1909: British Lt. Shackleton found the magnetic South Pole. 1912: German rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun was born. 1983: President Ronal Reagan announced the Strategic Defensive Initiative (SDI, or "Star Wars"). 1989: Electrochemists Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischman announced that they had created nuclear ("cold") fusion in a test tube at room temperature. 2001: The Russian space station, Mir, burned up in Earth's atmosphere after far out-living its designed lifespan. 2007: Set theory mathematician Paul Cohen died. | ||||||
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