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 October 31
 1926: Indian native
Narinder
Singh Kapany, "the father of fiber optics," was born. 1930: American astronaut
Michael Collins
(born in Rome), who piloted the Apollo 11 command module, was born. 1940:
John Renshaw Carson,
developer of the Carson Rule of FM, BW = 2(Δf + fm), died.
1941:
Mount Rushmore was completed,
with carved heads of U.S. presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.
1941: The U.S. Navy destroyer "Reuben James" was torpedoed by a German U-boat off Iceland (115 dead),
even though the U.S. had not yet entered World War II. 1956: Rear Admiral
George
Dufek became the first person to land an airplane (R4D Skytrain
Que Sera Sera) at the South Pole. 1992: The Vatican admitted erring in formally condemning
Galileo Galilei for declaring scientific truths such as the Earth revolves
around the sun, which the Roman Catholic Church long denounced as anti-scriptural heresy.
2005: Two new moons were found orbiting
Pluto (back when it was a planet).
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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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