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 May 23
 1785:
Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter that
he had invented bifocals. 1848:
Otto
Lilienthal, who accomplished some of the first controlled glider flights, was
born. 1857: Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician, died. 1908: Nobel
physicist
John Bardeen, co-inventor of the transistor along with William
Shockley and Walter Brattain, was born. 1916: Thomas Edison was issued three patents
for his "Phonograph or Talking Machine." 1922: "Daylight Saving Time" was
the topic in the first debate ever to be heard on radio in Washington, DC. 1934:
Bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were shot to death in a police
ambush. 1949: The Republic of West Germany was established. 1949:
William Hansen,
inventor of the klystron tube, died. 1960:
Georges Claude,
inventor of the neon light, died. 2007: The world's
demographic makeup shifted from mostly rural to mostly urban.
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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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