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 January 12
 1716:
Antonio de
Ulloa, who discovered the element Platinum (Pt), was born. 1866: The Royal Aeronautical
Society was founded in London. 1896: Dr. Henry Smith took the first X-ray photograph
- a hand with a bullet in it (he shot a corpse to get the pic). 1906: The
DOW closed above 100 for the first time. 1908: A wireless message
was sent long-distance for the first time from the Eiffel Tower in Paris. 1951:
Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh was born. 1966: The
Batman
television series debuted on ABC. 1968: AT&T adopted "9-1-1" as the emergency
telephone number. 1970: The Boeing 747 made its maiden voyage. 1971: "All in the
Family" debuted on CBS. 1997:
HAL 9000 (Heuristically
programmed ALgorithmic computer) of "2001: A Space Odyssey" fame, became operational.
2001: Hewlett-Packard co-founder
William (Bill)
Hewlett died in Palo Alto, CA, at age 87.
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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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