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 March 17
 1762: The first
St. Patrick's Day parade was held in New York City. 1834:
Gottlieb
Daimler, German engineer and pioneer automobile manufacturer, was born. 1845:
The rubber band was patented by Stephen Perry of London. 1846:
Friedrich
Bessel, of Bessel function fame, assumed room temperature. 1853: Austrian physicist
Christian
Doppler, of Doppler effect fame, died. 1905: Albert Einstein published his thesis
on the photoelectric effect, "On a Heuristic Point of View Concerning
the Production and Transformation and of Light." 1950: Scientists at the University
of CA at Berkeley announced a new radioactive element, number 98, which they named
"californium"
(Cf). 1958: The
Vanguard 1, the world's oldest satellite still in orbit, was launched by the
U.S. 1967: Snoopy and Charlie Brown of "Peanuts" were on the cover of "LIFE" magazine. 1974: The
Arab oil embargo was lifted by OPEC, during which time OPEC members
earned more than $100 billion (a nice bit of extra loot for funding terrorism worldwide).
1999: Intel released the Intel®
Pentium® III Xeon™ Processor. 1999: America Online completed the
acquisition of
Netscape Communications Corporation. 2007: Fortran creator
John Backus
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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