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  February 3
1690: The first
paper money in America was issued by the Massachusetts colony.
1859: German aircraft designer
Hugo Junkers
was born, and died on this date in 1923: Soviet
Aeroflot airlines
was formed. 1935. 1862:
Jean-Baptiste
Biot, who is half of the
Biot-Savart
Law of magnetism, died. 1863: Samuel Clemens first used his "Mark Twain" pseudonym. 1894: Classic American painter
Norman Rockwell
was born. 1925: Oliver Heaviside, developer of the Heaviside step function, died.
1959: "The Day the Music Died," Buddy
Holley and three others killed in airplane crash. 1966: The first rocket-assisted
controlled landing on the Moon was made by the Soviet space vehicle
Luna 9. 1975:
William
Coolidge, whose
x-ray tube design is the model of today's tubes, died. 1984:
STS-41B (Challenger)
blasted off on a mission that would test the Buck Rogers-style
Manned Maneuvering Unit.
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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.
Fair Use laws permit
small samples of copyrighted content.
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