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 November 6
1572: Tycho's Nova, a supernova
was observed in the constellation Cassiopeia. 1638: Scottish astronomer
James Gregory,
who invented the reflector telescope, was born. 1814:
Adolphe Sax, inventor of
the saxophone (no kidding), was born. 1854: American conductor
John Philip Sousa
was born. 1857: William
Noyes, who was the first chemist hired by the U.S. Bureau of Standards, was
born. 1885: Siegmund Loewe,
inventor of the integrated circuit vacuum tube, was born. 1927: Radar technology
pioneer Merrill Skolnik
was born. 1928: The New York Times mounted the first moving electric sign in the
U.S., the Motogram, around the top of the
Times Building in Times
Square, NYC. 1936:
RCA displayed
its television for the press. 1962: Saudi Arabia abolished slavery - that's right,
1962! 1984: The New York Stock Exchange was open for the first time on a presidential
election day. 2006: A joint MIT-Cambridge presentation of the breakthrough "Silent
Aircraft" technology was made.
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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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