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 July 14
 Today is
Bastille Day.
1827: Optics researcher
Augustin Fresnel died. 1850: The first public demonstration of
ice made by refrigeration in took place in the U.S. 1847: The first
Rotary
Printing Press was patented (#5199) by Richard Hoe. 1853: The first
U.S. World's Fair opened in New York. 1857:
Fred
Maytag, a pioneer of automatic washing machines, was born. 1867: Alfred Nobel
demonstrated dynamite for the first time. 1885: Sarah Goode became first black woman
to receive a U.S. patent (#322,177). 1900:
Samuel Ruben, co-founder
of Mallory battery company, was born. 1911:
Harry Atwood
landed an airplane on the lawn of the White House to accept an award from U.S. President William Taft.
1914: The first patent for a liquid-fueled rocket design was granted to
Dr. Robert Goddard. 1918:
Jay Forrester,
inventor of magnetic RAM, was born. 1933: Germany outlawed all political parties
except the Nazi Party. 1948:
Harry Brearley, inventor of stainless steel, died. 1948:
Six Royal Air Force (RAF) Vampires land after completing the first
transatlantic flight made by jet aircraft. 1975: The
Detroit Tigers trademark was registered. 1989: The first kill by an F-16 was
scored by an Israeli Air Force pilot shooting down a Syrian MIG-21. 1995: The
MP3 format was named.
2000: A Florida jury ordered five major tobacco companies to pay smokers a record
$145 billion in punitive damages (later reversed).
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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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