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November 9
   1877:
The American Chemical
Society was incorporated in NY. 1914: Frequency hopping spread spectrum
inventor Hedy
Lamarr was born. 1921:
Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work with
the photoelectric effect. 1934: American astronomer
Carl Sagan
(aka
Butt-Head Astronomer), of the PBS series fame, was born. 1961:
USAF Major Robert White flew the X-15 rocket plane to a record speed of Mach 6.04
(6,587 km/h) and to a 30.97 km altitude. 1965: The biggest electricity grid failure
in U.S. history, the "Great
Northeast Blackout," caused a 13-hour blackout in northeast America and parts
of Canada. 1989: East Berlin opened its borders. 1967: The first flight of the
Saturn V heavy
booster of the Apollo program (Apollo 4) was made. 1972:
Anik A, Canada's first domestic communications satellite, was
launched. 1978: Kirt B. (that's
me) entered the USAF to train as a radar repair technician. 1985:
Gary Kasparov,, 22, became the youngest world chess champion.
1994: German scientists at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) in Darmstadt,
Germany created the first atom of element 110 (ununnilium, Unn).
2005: The European Space Agency
(ESA) launched its
Venus Express spacecraft from Kazakhstan. 2011: First nationwide
test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS).
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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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