Almanac of Absurditied 11/6

On this date in 1935, Edwin Armstrong presented a paper to the Institute of Radio Engineers outlining a broadcast scheme that would eliminate disturbances in signal by using Frequency Modulation. FM. In other words…No Static At All, cue Steely Dan. Birthday of Suleiman the Magnificent, John Philip Sousa, Glenn Frey of the Eagles and of Plutonium, first synthesized at Hanford on this date in 1944.