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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. 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 ;-)
A couple 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.
September 1
1486: The first known
copyright was issued in Venice. 1859: A solar flare (
Carrington's Flare)was observed for the first time by astronomer
Richard Carrington. 1865:
Joseph Lister (think
Listerine) performed the first antiseptic surgery. In 1878,
Emma Nutt became the first female telephone operator in the U.S. 1939:
World War II began when Germany invaded Poland. 1953: The
first aerial refueling of a jet aircraft by a jet tanker is made with a B-47 Stratojet by a KB-47B tanker. 1961: The Soviet Union ended a moratorium on
atomic bomb testing. 1979:
Pioneer 11 became the first spacecraft to visit Saturn. 1997: The discovery of a new sub-atomic particle was announced, called the
exotic meson. 1998:
Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit his 56th and 57th home runs, breaking the one-season record set by Hack Wilson in 1930.