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 January 1
 0045 BC: The
Julian calendar
went into effect. 1748:
Johann Bernoulli, discoverer of exponential calculus, died. 1817:
German physicist
Martin
Klaproth, who discovered uranium, zirconium, and cerium, died. 1818: Mary Shelly's
Frankenstein
was first published. 1863: Abraham Lincoln issued the
Emancipation Proclamation declaring an end to slavery. 1890: The
Tournament of Roses parade was first held in Pasadena, CA. 1894:
Satyendra
Bose, of the
Bose-Einstein
condensates fame, was born. 1894: German physicist
Heinrich (Rudolf)
Hertz, who was the first to broadcast and receive radio waves, died. 1897:
Albert Taylor, who
regarded as "the father of navy radar," was born. 1902: The first radio broadcast
demonstration in U.S. was given by N. B. Stubblefield. 1908: The ball signifying
the New Year landed for the first time at
Times Square
in New York City, having been dropped 60 seconds earlier in 1907 (converted to an
LED array for 2006). 1939: The
Hewlett Packard (HP) company was founded. 1972:
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) was adopted worldwide. 1992:
Navy Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, credited with coining the term "bug" in computers,
died. 2000:
Greenwich Electronic Time (GeT) initiated in UK as an international
standard for all electronic commerce. 2024: Copyright for Steamboat Willie and
Plane Crazy versions of Mickey Mouse expired.
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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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