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 November 17
 1790: German astronomer
August
Möbius, the mathematician who invented the famous single-sided strip that
bears his name, was born. 1835: American physicist William Anthony, who developed
one of the first electrical engineering courses in America (at Cornell), was born.
1869: The Suez Canal opened in Egypt, linking the Mediterranean and the
Red Sea. 1871: The National Rifle Association (NRA) was organized. 1891: Emile Berliner
was issued a patent for a
combined telegraph and telephone. 1906:
Soichiro Honda,
who founded the Honda Motor Company, was born. 1962: President JFK dedicated the
Dulles International Airport in VA. 1967:
Surveyor 6
made a six-second flight from its landing site on the moon - the first lift-off
on lunar surface. 1970: A U.S. patent was issued to
Doug Engelbart
for the computer mouse - an "X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System."
1990: Robert
Hofstadter, Nobel Prize for Physics recipient for measuring the sizes of the
neutron and proton in the nuclei of atoms, died.
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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. Many 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. Images used in the logos are often from open source
websites like Wikipedia, and are specifically credited with a hyperlink back to
the source where possible.
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