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 March 14
 The "ultimate"
pi day (Π = 3.141592653589...)
occurred on March 14th, 1592, at 6:53 AM and 58 seconds. When written in American-style
date format, this is 3/14/1592 6:53.58. 1794: Eli Whitney patented the
cotton gin. 1879: Nobel laureate
Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany. 1900: Congress ratified
the Gold Standard Act
(Nixon took us off the gold standard in 1971). 1932: George Eastman, of
Eastman-Kodak fame, died. 1950: The FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program began. 1960: The British radio
telescope at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire set a new space record by making contact with
the American Pioneer V spacecraft at a distance of 407,000 miles. 1971: The Rolling
Stones left England for France to escape taxes. 1992: The Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspended publication. 1994:
Linux kernel version 1.0.0 was released. 2004:
Daniel Tammet
set the European record for memorizing and recounting pi to 22,514 digits in just
over five hours. 2018: British theoretical cosmologist
Stephen Hawking
died.
Note: These
historical tidbits (see daily
list) have been collected from various sources, mostly on the Internet.
As detailed in my
It Happened When? Factoid 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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