Standard time and frequency signal service (STFS): In the United States, standardtime and frequency signals, broadcast on very precise carrier frequencies by the U.S. Naval Observatory and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), formerly the National Bureau of Standards (NBS).
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August 28 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer
November 30 - Clyfford Still, painter
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January 20 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, Russian chemist and ...