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1847: The
American Medical Association (AMA) was established. 1855:
Oskar von
Miller, who pioneered the electric power industry in Germany, was born. 1909:
Edwin Land,
inventor of the Polaroid Land Camera, was born. 1942: In the
Battle of the Coral Sea, Japanese and American navies attacked
each other with carrier planes - it was the first time in the history of naval warfare
where two enemy fleets fought without seeing each other. 1945: Germany signed unconditional
surrender ending
World War II (it would take effect the next day). 1952: The concept
of the integrated circuit chip was first published by Geoffrey Dummer. 1963: The
U.S. launched the Telstar II communications satellite, which on its tenth orbit transmitted the
first transatlantic TV program seen in color. 1992: The
Endeavour
space shuttle blasted off on its maiden voyage.
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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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