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1815: Napoleon was defeated at
Waterloo.
1873:
Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote. 1939:
Co-discoverer of the radio reflecting properties of the ionosphere in the upper
atmosphere (the Kennelly-Heaviside layer), and first to apply complex number analysis
to AC circuits, Arthur Kennelly, died. 1940: Winston Churchill delivered his "Finest
Hour" speech in the House of Commons. 1942: The U.S. Navy commissioned its first
black officer, Harvard University medical student
Bernard Whitfield Robinson, into the Reserves. 1959: The first
telecast received from England was broadcast in the U.S. over NBC-TV. 1965: The
first large solid-fuel rocket - a
Titan 3C -
was launched into orbit. 1983:
Dr. Sally Ride became the first American woman in space, aboard
the space shuttle Challenger. 2005: The
EU agreed upon its first constitution. 2011: Analog design legend
Bob Pease died.
2014: Stephanie
Kwolek, inventor of
Kevlar, 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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