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 September 22
 Today is the birthday of
Bilbo and Frodo
Baggins. 1791: Michael Faraday, who discovered the principle of electromagnetic
induction (Faraday's Law), was born. 1862: President Lincoln signed the
Emancipation Proclamation. 1914: A
German U-9 submarine
sank three British cruisers in the North Sea. 1939: A uranium atom was split for
the first time using the cyclotron at Columbia University. 1949: President Truman
announced that the Soviet Union exploded its first
atomic bomb successfully. 1949:
WFMY TV channel
2 in Greensboro-High Point, NC, made its first broadcast. 1955: The first commercial
television broadcasting began in Britain by
ITV (Independent
Television), ending the BBC's monopoly. 1980: A border conflict between
Iran and Iraq
developed into a full-scale war. 1993:
Nolan Ryan
threw his last pitch in his final game after tearing a ligament in his arm.
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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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