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 November 13
 1789:
Benjamin
Franklin wrote a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy in which he said, "In this world
nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." 1851: World's first
undersea telegraph
cable went into operation, between Dover, England, and Calais, France. 1927:
The first underwater tunnel, the
Holland
Tunnel, between New York and New Jersey, opened. 1946:
Artificial snow from a natural cloud was produced for the first
time over Mount Greylock, MA. 1971: U.S. spacecraft Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft
to orbit another planet - Mars. 1979: Robert Jarvik was granted a patent in for
an artificial heart. 1982: The
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
was dedicated in Washington, D.C. 1994: Sweden passed a referendum to join the
European Union. 1999:
Dr. John Stapp,
who pioneered research in high acceleration effects on the human body, died.
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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.
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small samples of copyrighted content.
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