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 May 2
 1519:
Leonardo
Da Vinci died. 1800: English chemist
William Nicholson discovered electrolysis when he took wires from
the poles of a battery he had built and dipped them in water, and found bubbles
of gas were released due to the effect of current flow through water. 1802: Physicist
Heinrich
Gustav Magnus, who discovered the Magnus Rotor effect, was born. 1892: German
air ace Manfred von Richtofen, "The Red Baron," was born. 1912:
BF Goodrich
was incorporated. 1919: The first U.S. air passenger service was started. 1952:
De Havilland ushered in the commercial jet age its
Comet airliner. 1965: The "Early Bird" satellite was used to transmit television pictures
across the Atlantic. 1997: Tony Blair became, at age 44, Britain's youngest prime minister
in 185 years. 2000: The "Selective
Availability" feature of GPS was discontinued, making the full system precision
available to all users.
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Apr | May |
Jun | Jul |
Aug | Sep |
Oct | Nov |
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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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