 July 8
 1695:
Christiaan Huygens,
discoverer of the wave theory of light and of Saturn's moon
Titan, died. 1831:
John Pemberton, the pharmacist who invented
Coca-Cola, was born. 1838:
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, of airship fame, was born. 1856: Charles
Barnes patented a crank operated machine gun. 1862:
Theodore Timby
patented the revolving gun turret. 1873:
Anna Nichols
became the first woman patent examiner. 1889: The Wall Street Journal was first published. 1932: At the low point
of The Great Depression,
the DJIA hit 41.22. 1937: England
began its 999 emergency
phone system. 1947: The Roswell Daily Record headline read, "RAAF Captures
Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell Region." 1958: The first gold record
album was presented by the RIAA
for the soundtrack "Oklahoma!" 1969: The withdrawal of American troops from
Vietnam began. 1994: Kim Il Sung,
North Korea's communist leader since 1948, died at age 82, and was succeeded by the maniacal
little pot-bellied
Kim Jung Il. 1999: Astronaut
Charles
"Pete" Conrad Jr., the third man to walk on the moon, died in a motorcycle accident.
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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.
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