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 October 1
 1880:
Edison Lamp Works, the first electric incandescent lamp factory
in the U.S., was opened in Menlo Park, NJ. 1908: The
Model-T Ford
was announced to be available for $850. 1942: The
Bell P-59 Airacomet
fighter, the first U.S. jet, makes maiden flight. 1962: Johnny Carson succeeded
Jack Paar as regular host of NBC's "Tonight" show. 1969: The
Anglo-French Concorde broke the sound barrier for the first time.
1979: The Canal Zone was turned back over to Panama. 1981:
EPCOT (Experimental
Prototype Community of Tomorrow) Center opened in Florida. 2001: The world's first
3-G, W-CDMA wireless network debuted in Japan (by NTT
DoCoMo). 2015:
International Coffee
Day established.
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| Feb | Mar |
Apr | May |
Jun | Jul |
Aug | Sep |
Oct | Nov |
Dec |
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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