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 November 22
 1900:
Wiley Post,
who made the first round-the-world solo flight (15,596 miles) in his
Lockheed Vega
5B single-engine aircraft, was born. 1902: U.S. Army pathologist
Walter Reed,
after whom the Walter Reed Hospital is named, died. 1904: The first direct current,
variable speed, interpole
electric motor was patented by Mathias Pfatischer. 1907: American
astronomer Asaph
Hall, who discovered and named the two moons of Mars Phobos and Deimos, died.
1909: Wilbur and Orville Wright formed the
Wright Company,
which would become a million-dollar corporation for the commercial manufacture of
airplanes. 1927: The first U.S. patent for a
snowmobile "vehicle for snow travel" was issued to Carl Eliason.
1935: A Pan American Airways China Clipper made the first commercial aircraft crossing of the
Pacific. 1944: English astrophysicist
Sir
Arthur Stanley Eddington died. 1963:
President J.F. Kennedy was fatally shot in Dallas, TX. 1972: The
U.S. ended a 22-year travel ban to China. 1988: The
B-2 Spirit stealth bomber was first revealed to the public. 1990:
Margaret Thatcher announced her resignation as British Prime Minister.
2005: Angela
Merkel became the first female Chancellor of Germany.
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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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