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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.
May 10Transcontinental Railroad Completed
1788: Optics researcher
Augustin Fresnel was born. 1829:
Thomas Young, after whom
Young's Modulus of elasticity was named, died. 1869: The Transcontinental Railroad was officially completed with the driving of a special "
golden spike" during a ceremony at Promontory Point, UT. 1928: The first U.S. television station,
WGY, began regular broadcasting. 1933: The Nazis staged massive public
book burnings in Germany. 1940: Pacifist Neville Chamberlain was replaced by
Winston Churchill. 1960: The
USS Triton completed the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe. 1979: A world record 32 MV was generated by the
National Electrostatics Corporation, Oak Ridge, TN.