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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.
November 2
1815: English mathematician
George Boole, of
Boolean algebra fame, died (
Boole). 1885: American astronomer
Harlow Shapley, who discovered the sun's position in the Milky Way galaxy, was born. 1920: Pittsburgh radio station
KDKA was the first to broadcast presidential election results (between Warren Harding and James Cox - Harding won). 1936: BBC Television Service inaugurated the world's first regular, public,
high-definition television broadcasting system. 1942: The first controlled
nuclear chain reaction was demonstrated at the University of Chicago. 1947: Howard Hughes flew his huge wooden airplane, the
Spruce Goose, on its only flight, which lasted about a minute. 1982: Barney Clark had the world's first artificial heart transplant. 1988: Robert Morris released what is considered to be the first successful worm (
Morris Worm) or Internet. 1992: The Airbus A330 first flew. 2000: An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts became the first permanent residents of the
International Space Station.