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1788: Optics researcher
Augustin
Fresnel was born. 1829:
Thomas
Young, after whom Young's Modulus of elasticity was named, died. 1869: The Transcontinental
Railroad was officially completed with the driving of a special "golden spike"
during a ceremony at Promontory Point, UT. 1928: The first U.S. television station,
WGY, began regular broadcasting. 1933: The Nazis staged massive
public book burnings in Germany. 1940: Pacifist Neville Chamberlain was replaced by
Winston Churchill. 1960: The
USS Triton completed the first submerged circumnavigation of the
globe. 1979: A world record 32 MV was generated by the
National
Electrostatics Corporation, Oak Ridge, TN.
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.
Fair Use laws permit
small samples of copyrighted content.
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