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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.
May 19  1795: Johns Hopkins, endower of the college named after him, was born. 1942: Sir Joseph Larmor, the first to calculate the rate at which energy is radiated by an accelerated electron, and the first to explain the splitting of spectrum lines by a magnetic field, died. 1961: The Venera 1 spacecraft became the first manmade object to fly past a planet (Venus). 1964: The State Department disclosed that 40 hidden microphones had been found in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. 1967: The Soviet Union ratified a treaty with the United States and Britain banning nuclear weapons from outer space. 1987: Chet Fleming was issued a patent for "keeping a head alive." 1998: Millions of pagers went silent when the Galaxy IV satellite began tumbling in its orbit. 1999: "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace" was released in the U.S., setting a new record for opening day sales at 28.5 million. 2005: "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" debuted in theaters. | ||||||
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