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 November 12
1802: John Dalton announced
the first example of the law of multiple proportions. 1916:
Percival Lowell,
the American astronomer who helped discover Pluto and believed that there was life
on Mars, died. 1923: Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company announced it had purchased
all patents and rights to manufacture Zeppelin dirigibles (bad decision). 1926:
Jack
Ryan, inventor with more than 1,000 patents including the Barbie Doll and Hot
Wheels cars, was born. 1936: The Oakland Bay Bridge opened. 1942: The naval battle
of Guadalcanal began between Japanese and American forces. 1970:
A 240 km/h cyclone hit East Pakistan (Bangladesh). 1979:
William
Friedman, the cryptologist who broke the Japanese "Purple" code, permitting
the reading of many critical Japanese messages during WWII, died. 1980: The U.S.
space probe "Voyager
One" came within 77,000 miles of Saturn. 1981: The shuttle Columbia became the
first spacecraft ever launched twice from Earth.
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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