December 1
1743: German
physicist Martin
Klaproth, who discovered uranium, zirconium, and cerium, was born. 1792: Russian
mathematician Nikolay Lobachevsky, who is credited with developing non-Euclidean
geometry, was born. 1935: German astronomer
Bernhard
Schmidt, who invented the type of reflecting telescope named after him (Schmidt telescope,
Schmidt-Cassegrain,
etc.), died. 1941: The U.S. Civil Air Patrol was created. 1941:
Federico Faggin, inventor of the Z80 microprocessor, was born. 1969:
The U.S. government held its first
draft lottery
since World War II. 1989: Ford acquired
Jaguar Cars for $2.5 billion.
1990: British and French workers digging the
Channel
Tunnel ("Chunnel") under the English Channel finally met in the service tunnel after
knocking out a passage large enough to walk through and shake hands, 22.3 km from the
U.K. and 15.6 km from France. 1998: Exxon announced an $80B deal to buy Mobil, thus creating
Exxon-Mobil,
the 3rd largest company on the planet.
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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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