November 6
1572:
Tycho's Nova,
a supernova was observed in the constellation Cassiopeia. 1638: Scottish astronomer
James Gregory, who invented the reflector telescope, was born.
1814: Adolphe
Sax, inventor of the saxophone (no kidding), was born. 1854: American conductor
John Philip
Sousa was born. 1857:
William Noyes,
who was the first chemist hired by the U.S. Bureau of Standards, was born. 1927:
Radar technology pioneer
Merrill Skolnik was born. 1928: The New York Times mounted the first moving
electric sign in the U.S., the Motogram, around the top of the
Times Building
in Times Square, NYC. 1936:
RCA displayed its television for the press. 1962: Saudi Arabia
abolished slavery - that's right, 1962! 1984: The New York Stock Exchange was open
for the first time on a presidential election day. 2006: A joint MIT-Cambridge presentation
of the breakthrough "Silent Aircraft" technology was made.
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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.
Fair Use laws permit
small samples of copyrighted content.
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