 July 15
1868:
William Morton, the first dentist to use ether (letheon)
during a tooth extraction, died. 1869:
Hippolyte
Mège Mouriés patented margarine following a contest held by Emperor Napoleon III
to find a suitable substitute for butter used by the French Navy. 1916: The
Boeing Company, originally known as Pacific Aero Products, was founded
in Seattle by William Boeing. 1933:
Wiley Post began the first solo flight around world. 1940: The first
betatron was placed
in operation, Urbana, IL. 1943: Astronomer
Jocelyn Burnell, who discovered the first four pulsars, was born.
1944: The Greenwich Royal Observatory
was damaged by German
V1 "Buzz Bomb." 1952: The first
transatlantic helicopter
flight began. 1954: The
Boeing
707 - the first commercial jet transport airplane built in U.S. - was tested. 1955:
The first electric power generated from atomic energy to illuminate an entire town was
obtained from the Utah Power and Light Company's station in Arco, Idaho. 1965: The
spacecraft Mariner
IV sent back the first close-up pictures of the planet Mars. 1965: Congress passed
a law requiring all cigarette packages to carry a health warning. 1975: Three American
astronauts blasted off aboard an Apollo spaceship hours after two Soviet cosmonauts were
launched aboard a "Soyuz" spacecraft for a mission that included an
Apollo-Soyuz
linkup of the two ships in orbit. 1975: The
Detroit Tigers trademark was registered. 1996:
MSNBC made its debut on cable and
the Internet. 1999: China declared that it had invented its own
neutron
bomb.
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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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