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 September 7
 1813: "Uncle Sam" was first used by Troy Post to refer to the U.S. 1912:
Electrical engineer and entrepreneur
David Packard,
who co-founded the Hewlett-Packard Company, was born. 1914: American physicist
James Van
Allen, discoverer of the Van Allen radiation belts, was born. 1915:
Kiyoshi Ito, a mathematician whose innovative models of random
motion are used today in fields as diverse as finance and biology, was born. 1927:
American television pioneer
Philo Farnsworth, at age 21, transmitted the first image through
purely electronic means by his "image dissector" invention. 1936: The
Boulder Dam (now Hoover
Dam) began operation. 1940: German
Luftwaffe began
a
57-night blitz on London. 1948:
Louis Parker was issued a patent for his "intercarrier sound system"
TV receiver, used still in modern TVs. 1963: The
National Professional Football
Hall of Fame was dedicated in Canton, Ohio. 1977: Jimmy Carter signed a treaty
transferring control of
Panama Canal on 12/31/1999. 1980: American chemist
Willard Libby, who won the Nobel Prize for his development of
carbon-14 dating, died. 1987: An agreement was signed in Copenhagen by 15 telecommunications
operators from 13 countries that led to the development of the
Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM). 1991:
Edwin McMillan, who discovered
neptunium and
plutonium, died.
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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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