November 24
1874: American farmer Joseph Glidden
was awarded a patent for the first
barbed wire. 1903: The first patent for an automobile
electric self-starter was issued to Clyde Coleman of NY City. 1916:
Prolific inventor Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, who developed the
Maxim (machine) gun
and also was the father of ARRL founder Hiram Percy Maxim, died. 1922: NiMH Battery Inventor
Stanford Ovshinsky
was born. 1963: Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of murdering President Kennedy
the day before, was shot to death in a Dallas police station by Jack Ruby. 1969:
Apollo 12, the second manned moon mission, returned to Earth. 1971:
D.B.
Cooper parachuted from a Northwest Airlines 727 with $200,000 and was never captured
or found. 1998: AOL announced its acquisition of Netscape and a strategic partnership
with Sun Microsystems.
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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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samples of copyrighted content.
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