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.
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March 18
1833: Lucy Hobbs Taylor, the first woman to earn a dental degree in America, was born. 1858: Rudolf Diesel, German thermal engineer who invented the internal-combustion engine that bears his name, was born. 1871: Augustus De Morgan, who formulated De Morgan's laws for Boolean algebra, died. 1899: Saturn's moon, Phoebe, was discovered by William Pickering. 1909: Einar Dessau of Denmark used a shortwave transmitter to converse with a government radio post about six miles away in what's believed to have been the first broadcast by a ''ham'' operator. 1965: The first space walk took place as Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov left his Voskhod 2 capsule and remained outside the spacecraft for 20 minutes, secured by a tether. 1974: Oil-producing Arab countries agreed to lift their 5-month embargo on petroleum sales to the U.S., during which gasoline prices soared 300%. 1987: The discovery of "high-temperature" superconductivity was announced at an American Physical Society in New York City. 1998: Hideo Shima, Japanese designer of the world's first "bullet train," died.
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