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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.
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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 3  Today is German Reunification Day (1990). 1830: George Brayton, who invented the first commercially produced internal combustion engine and developed the Brayton cycle, was born. 1910: Lucy Hobbs Taylor, the first woman to earn a dental degree in America, died. 1913: President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill authorizing the Federal Income Tax. 1942: The first successful launch of the German V-2 rocket took place. 1947: The 200-inch diameter telescope lens for the Mount Palomar Observatory was completed after 11 years of grinding and polishing. 1950: The transistor was patented by Shockley, Bardeen and Brattain. 1952: "Hurricane", the first British atomic bomb, was tested becoming the third country in the world to test such a weapon. 1971: Lester Germer, who along with Clinton Davisson, conducted an experiment that first demonstrated the wave properties of the electron, died. 1999: Sony co-founder Akio Morita died. 2006: Nokia announced its new Wibree short-range wireless connectivity standard. | ||||||
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