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 January 25
 1627: Irish chemist
Robert Boyle,
of Boyle's gas law fame, was born. 1812: English mathematician
William Shanks,
who held the record for calculating
π to the
most places (707) until the digital computer was developed, was born. 1881: Thomas
Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and others signed an agreement to organize the
Oriental
Telephone Company. 1915: Alexander Graham Bell inaugurated U.S.
Transcontinental Telephone Line. 1921:
Samuel T. Cohen, designer of the neutron bomb, was born. 1939:
The cyclotron
at Columbia University in New York City split the uranium atom for the first time.
1945: Grand Rapids, MI, became the first U.S. city to begin
fluoridating the drinking water. 1970: The movie
M*A*S*H
premiered in theaters. 1981: The 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days
arrived in the United States. 2004: The
Opportunity rover returned its first pictures from the
Martian surface.
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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.
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