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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.
November 17  1787: Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, who produced the first permanent photograph, was born. 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." 2008: Kiyoshi Ito, a mathematician whose innovative models of random motion are used today in fields as diverse as finance and biology, died. | ||||||
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