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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.
October 21  1833: Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite and who began the Nobel Prize system, was born. 1879: Thomas Edison demonstrated an electric light bulb that lasted for 13.5 hours. 1884: Thomas Edison received a patent for his "electrical indicator" that resembles a d'Arsonval movement. 1914: Samuel Alderson, inventor of the crash test dummy, was born. 1915: The first trans-Atlantic radiotelephone call was placed between Arlington, VA, and Paris, France. 1923: The first Carl Zeiss projector planetarium opened at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany. 1925: The first U.S.-made photocell was demonstrated by Westinghouse. 1959: Dr. Wernher Von Braun began work at NASA after a transfer from ABMA. 1960: The first British nuclear submarine, HMS Dreadnought, was launched. 1967: Danish astronomer Ejnar Hertzsprung, who co-developed the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram relating star temperatures with brightness, died. 1976: The United States made a clean sweep of the Nobel Prizes, winning or sharing awards in chemistry, physics, medicine, economics, and literature (no peace prize awarded). | ||||||
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