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.
All will eventually be either verified or removed.
Please
submit
significant historical events and dates for inclusion in these lists. I will be glad to
include your name and birthday. Please do not submit your death date ;-)
February 18
President's Day 2008 (3rd Monday in February)
1745: Alessandro Volta, inventor of the storage battery and namesake of the "volt" unit, was born. 1838: Ernst Mach, of speed of sound unit defining fame, was born. 1851: Karl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, founder of elliptical functions, died. 1871: Harry Brearley, inventor of stainless steel, was born. 1875: Auguste Bartholdi was granted patent for the Statue of Liberty. 1898: Car manufacturer and racing star Enzo Ferrari was born. 1908: Lee DeForest received a patent on his Audion amplification tube. 1885: Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was first published. 1930: The ninth has-been planet of our solar system, Pluto, was discovered. 1957: American astronomer Henry Russell, who showed the relationship between a star's brightness and its spectral type, and co-created the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, died. 1967: The "Father of the Atomic Bomb," Robert Oppenheimer, died. 1977: The space shuttle Enterprise, sitting atop a Boeing 747, went on its maiden "flight" above the Mojave Desert. 1981: American aviation pioneer Jack Northrop died. 2001: Veteran NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Sr., 49, died from injuries suffered in a crash at the Daytona 500.
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