Day in History Archive March 20

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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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March 20

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1800: Alessandro Volta announced his invention of the electric battery. 1856: American inventor and engineer Frederick Taylor, known as the father of scientific management, was born. 1886: America's first demonstration of the AC power system provided lighting along Main Street at Great Barrington, MA. 1900: Nikola Tesla received a patent for the wireless transmission of electric power. 1916: Albert Einstein's Theory of General Relativity was published in Annalen der Physik. 1934: The 1t test of a practical radar apparatus was made by Rudolf Kuhnold in Kiel Harbour, Germany. 1993: Nobel physicist Polykarp Kusch, who determined that the magnetic moment of the electron is greater than its theoretical value, died. 1944: Mount Vesuvius, in Italy exploded. 1954: Newspaper vending machines became big news as the first one was introduced in Columbia, Pennsylvania. 1995: In Tokyo, 12 people were killed, more than 5,500 others sickened when terrorists released packages containing the poisonous gas Sarin into five separate subway trains. 2003: The Iraq war began.