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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 29  1803: Austrian physicist Christian Doppler, of Doppler effect fame, was born. 1849: Sir John Ambrose Fleming, inventor of the diode tube, was born. 1877: Thomas Edison demonstrated his hand-cranked phonograph that recorded sound on grooved metal cylinders. 1915: Eugene Polley, inventor of the TV remote, was born. 1929: Navy Lt. Commander Richard Byrd radioed that he had made the first airplane flight over the South Pole. 1944: The first open heart surgery was performed at Johns Hopkins hospital. 1951: The first U.S. underground atom bomb test - designed "Uncle" (a mnemonic for underground) was detonated. 1954: Nobel Prize winning physicist Enrico Fermi died. 1961: "Enos" the chimp was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft, which orbited earth twice before returning. 1972: The original PONG arcade unit was released by Atari. | ||||||
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