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  December 18
1856:
Sir J.J. Thomson, who won a Nobel Prize for his work on cathode
rays, was born. 1890: American electrical engineer
Edwin
Armstrong, a pioneer in radio communications and electronic theory and inventor
of the CW transmitter, regenerative & superheterodyne circuits, and frequency
modulation, was born. 1926: G.N. Lewis coined the word "photon." 1957: The
Shippingport Atomic Power Station in PA, the first civilian nuclear
facility to generate electricity in the United States, went online. 1958: Project
SCORE (Signal Communication by Orbiting Relay Equipment), the
first American communication satellite, was launched on an Atlas booster. 1977:
Voyager 1 took the first photograph of the Earth and the moon together. 1997: The
9.3-mile toll expressway,
Tokyo
Bay Aqualine bridge and tunnel that spans the narrowest gap of Tokyo Bay, opened
to traffic after 31 years of studies. 1998: ICANN, the Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers,
was formed.
Note: These
historical tidbits (see daily
list) have been collected from various sources, mostly on the Internet.
As detailed in my
It Happened When? Factoid 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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