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 September 14
 1698:
Charles de Cisternay DuFay, discoverer of positive and negative
electricity ("vitreous electricity" and "resinous electricity") and repulsion between
like charges, was born. 1712:
Gian Cassini,
after whom the division between Saturn's A and B rings is named, died. 1716: The
first lighthouse in America,
Boston Light, was illuminated just before sunset. 1886:
George Anderson patented typewriter ribbon. 1887:
Karl Compton,
who directed the development of radar during WWII, was born. 1940: The U.S. Congress
passed the first peace-time
conscription bill. 1944:
Dr. Harry Wexler made the first successful flight into the eye
of a hurricane was made by a 3-man American crew flying a Douglas A-20 Havoc. 1959:
The Soviet Luna
2 became the first man-made object to reach the surface of the moon and the
first man-made object to reach any celestial body. 1960: Radar pioneer
Sir Arthur Percy Morris Fleming died. 2003: Sweden rejected adopting
the
euro.
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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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