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 January 17
 1706: Scientist and statesman
Benjamin
Franklin was born in Boston, Massachusetts. 1871: Andrew Hallidie received a
patent for his cable car system. 1882: Leroy Firman received a patent for the telephone
switchboard. 1886: American airplane designer
Glenn L. Martin
was born. 1955: The submarine
Nautilus began the first nuclear-powered test voyage. 1977:
Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered the non-planet Pluto, died. 1994: A 6.7 magnitude
earthquake struck Southern California, killing at least 61 people
and causing $20 billion worth of damage. 1991: Operation Desert Shield became
Operation Desert Storm as the air war phase began. 1995: 5,372
people were killed when a 7.2 magnitude earthquake devastated
Kobe,
Japan. 2001: Tom Kilburn, who was the first to succeed in storing and then
retrieving a bit of data via software, died.
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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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