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  February 27
1891: American communications
pioneer and RCA's first general manager,
David Sarnoff,
was born. 1900: Felix Hoffman was awarded a patent for acetyl salicylic acid (Aspirin).
1906: Aeronautical pioneer
Samuel Langley
died. 1910: American aeronautical engineer
Kelly
Johnson, who founded the Lockheed
Skunk Works,
was born. 1932: The neutron was discovered by Dr. James Chadwick. 1936:
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, of salivating dog fame, died. 1942:
J.S. Hey discovered radio emissions from the Sun.
1962: Astronaut Wally Schirra,
the only man to fly in America's first three space programs: Mercury, Gemini and
Apollo, blasted off from Cape Canaveral aboard the "Sigma 7" on a nine-hour flight. 1999: Colin Prescot and Andy Elson
set a new hot air balloon endurance record by staying aloft for 233 hours and 55 minutes.
Note: These
historical tidbits (see daily
list) 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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small samples of copyrighted content.
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