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 November 19
 1863: President Lincoln delivered
his Gettysburg
Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield
in PA. 1901: Granville Woods issued a patent for a
third rail to operate electrified railways (hence the term indicating
a politically charged topic). 1916: India prime minister
Indira Gandhi
was born. 1922: Englishman Stanley Runcorn, discoverer of earth's magnetic core reversals,
was born. 1956: American astronaut
Eileen Collins,
the first female Space Shuttle pilot, was born. 1959: Ford Motor Company announced
it was halting production of the unpopular
Edsel. 1969:
Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean made man's second
landing on the moon. 1996: The Clinton administration and Republican congressional
leaders reached a deal to end a six-day budget standoff and resulting partial
government
shutdown (the "Monica thing" occurred during this shutdown). 1998: Japanese-American
Ted Fujita,
who discovered the phenomenon of microbursts, died. 1999: The People's Republic
of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
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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