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  December 31
1691: Irish chemist
Robert Boyle,
of Boyles gas law fame, died. 1719: English astronomer
John Flamsteed,
who established the Greenwich Observatory, died. 1857: Britain's Queen Victoria
decided to make
Ottawa the capital of Canada. 1879: Thomas Edison first publicly
demonstrated his electric
incandescent light in Menlo Park, NJ. 1905:
Aleksandr Popov, considered in Russia to be the inventor of radio,
died. 1935: A patent was issued for the game of
Monopoly, assigned to Parker Brothers. 1940: French biophysicist
Jacques-Arsène d' Arsonval, who invented the reflecting moving-coil
galvanometers
used to measure weak electric currents, died. 1974: Private U.S. citizens were allowed
to buy and own
gold in bullion for the first time in more than 40 years (high
of $875/oz. in 1980, currently around $600/oz.). 1991: The
USSR was officially dissolved. 1995: The final
Calvin
and Hobbes comic strip was published - reruns are not allowed. 1997: Intel cut
price of Pentium II-233 MHz from $401 to $268. 2004:
Taipei 101, the world's tallest skyscraper, was fully opened.
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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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