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 October
7
 1868:
Cornell University
was inaugurated in Ithaca, NY. 1885: Nobel Prize winner
Niels Bohr, developer of the planetary Bohr atomic model, was
born. 1931: The U.S. Army first tested the famous
Norden bomb sight. 1939:
Sir Harold Kroto, Nobel Prize winner for the co-discovery of carbon
Fullerenes, was born. 1940: The U.S. Postal Service issued a
stamp commemorating
cotton gin inventor
Eli
Whitney. 1950: Willis Carrier, inventor of the first practical air conditioning
system, manufactured weather," died. 1956:
Clarence
Birdseye, inventor of deep freezing food and inventor of the TV dinner, died.
1959: The dark* far side of the Moon was photographed for the first time and pictures
relayed back to Earth by Russia's
Luna E-3 spacecraft. 1985: Four Palestinian terrorists hijacked
the Italian cruise ship
Achille Lauro of the coast of Egypt, and pushed a wheelchair-bound
passenger overboard. 2003: Arnold "the Governator"
Schwarzenegger
was elected as governor of CA.
* Note: There is no 'dark' side of the moon since at any given
time fully half of the moon is illuminated by the sun, in the same
manner as
half the Earth is illuminated, depending on its orientation toward the sun. The
meaning of 'dark' as applied
to the far
side of the moon, which always faces away from Earth, can be taken as per
Merriam-Webster:
4 a : not clear to the understanding
b : not known or explored because of remoteness
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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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small samples of copyrighted content.
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