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 March 21
 1768: Mathematician
Jean-Baptiste-Joseph
Fourier was born. 1861: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America
established a Patent Office. 1877: French aircraft designer
Maurice Farman
was born. 1915: American inventor and engineer
Frederick
Taylor, known as the father of scientific management, died. 1925:
Carl Eilers,
the "Father of FM and TV Stereo," was born. 1942: A secret report (held until after
WWII was over) was submitted suggesting the name "plutonium" for artificial element 94 since it followed neptunium
and uranium. 1965:
Martin Luther King, Jr. led the historic 54-mile civil rights
march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. 1963:
Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay was emptied of its last inmates
at the order of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. 1991:
Leo Fender,
inventor of the first solid body electric guitar, died. 1999: A balloon flown by
Brian Jones and Bertrand Piccard achieved the first non-stop round-the-world
balloon flight.
Note: These
historical tidbits (see daily
list) 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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small samples of copyrighted content.
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