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 November 27
 1701: Swedish astronomer
Anders Celsius,
after whom the temperature scale is named, was born. 1871: Italian physicist
Giovanni Giorgi,
who invented the Giorgi system of measurement that introduced electrical resistance
(mksΩ, precursor to the SI), was born. 1873:
Auguste-Arthur de La Rive, who pioneered the electrochemical theory of batteries,
died. 1894: Japanese industrialist
Konosuke
Matsushita, founder of Panasonic, was born. 1897: Andrew Beard received a patent
for a revolutionary rail car coupling device he called the
Jenny
Coupler. 1901: Auto maker Clement Studebaker, the world's largest producer of horse-drawn
vehicles, died. 1923: The first transatlantic two-way
shortwave contact between amateur radio operators occurred between
American Fred Schnell and Frenchman Leon Deloy. 1951: The first rocket intercept
of an airplane was made with a
Nike
missile at White Sands, NM. 1963: The first flight of a space vehicle powered by
liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen fuel combination (Centaur II) took place. 1990: Britain's Conservatives chose
John Major to succeed
Margaret
Thatcher as party leader, paving the way for his appointment as prime minister.
2007: Herbert Saffir, developer of the hurricane intensity scale.
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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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