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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 2  1519: Leonardo Da Vinci died. 1800: English chemist William Nicholson discovered electrolysis when he took wires from the poles of a battery he had built and dipped them in water, and found bubbles of gas were released due to the effect of current flow through water. 1892: German air ace Manfred von Richtofen, "The Red Baron," was born. 1912: BF Goodrich was incorporated. 1919: The first U.S. air passenger service was started. 1952: De Havilland ushered in the commercial jet age its Comet airliner. 1965: The "Early Bird" satellite was used to transmit television pictures across the Atlantic. 1997: Tony Blair became, at age 44, Britain's youngest prime minister in 185 years. 2000: The "Selective Availability" feature of GPS was discontinued, making the full system precision available to all users. | ||||||
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