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  December 28
1520: Portuguese navigator
Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean after passing through
the South American strait that now bears his name. 1869: William Semple of Mt. Vernon,
Ohio, patented
chewing gum. 1882: English astrophysicist
Sir Arthur
Eddington was born. 1895: The world's first
movie theater opened in Paris, France. 1929: Dutch astronomer
Maarten Schmidt,
who discovered the distance vs. spectral shift paradox of
quasars, was born.
1976: Patent #4,000,000 was issued to Robert Mendenhall for a process for recycling
asphalt compositions. 2000: U.S. retail giant
Montgomery Ward announced it is going out of business after 128
years. 2005: GIOVE-A, the first in a series of test-bed Galileo navigation satellites, was
launched by the European Union.
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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