1884: Transparent paper-strip photographic film was patented
by George Eastman. 1908:
George Brown, who developed the turnstile TV antenna, and the
vestigial sideband filter, was born. 1923: Xilinx co-founder
Bernard Vonderschmitt was born. 1947: Chuck Yeager became the
first human to fly faster than the speed of sound in the rocket
Bell XS-1 over Murac Dry Lake, CA. 1960: The 4th legal definition
of the meter was made to be 1,650,763.73 wavelengths in vacuum of
the orange-red light radiation of the krypton-86 atom (transition
between levels 2p10 and 5d5). 1984:
Sir Martin Ryle, who developed the first synthetic aperture
radio telescope systems, died. 1996: The Dow Jones Industrial Average
closed above 6,000 for the first time. 1997: British Royal Air Force
pilot Andy Green broke the land-speed record by driving a jet-powered
car faster than the speed of sound. 2001: NASA's Galileo spacecraft
passed within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io. 2004: The FCC adopted
rules for broadband over power lines (BPL).
Benoit Mandelbrot, popularize of fractal geometry, was born.
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Note: These historical tidbits have been collected from various sources, mostly on the Internet. As detailed in
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.
significant historical events and
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date ;-) A couple 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.