September 27
 1825:
George Stephenson
operated the first locomotive that hauled a passenger car. 1831: The first meeting of the
British Association for the Advancement of Science was held in York. 1894:
Lothar von Richthofen,
WWI flying ace and brother of the Red Baron, was born. 1892:
Book matches were patented by Joshua Pusey. 1918:
Sir Martin Ryle, who
developed the first synthetic aperture radio telescope systems, was born. 1938: The
Queen Elizabeth
was launched at the John Brown & Company shipyard at Clydebank, Scotland. 1993: General
James "Jimmy" Doolittle,
famous for, amongst other things, his raid on Tokyo in 1942, died. 1997: The space shuttle
"Atlantis"
docked with the problem-plagued Russian "Mir" station to drop off American David Wolf and
pick up Michael Foale. 2003: The first European mission to the Moon was launched aboard an
Ariane-5 rocket.
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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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