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  August 4
1693: Champagne was invented by
Dom Perignon. 1790: The
U. S.
Coast Guard was established. 1893:
Herman A. Affel,
co-inventor of coaxial cable, was born. 1921: The first radio broadcast of a tennis
match occurred in Pittsburgh, PA. 1900:
Etienne Lenoir,
who developed the first commercially successful internal combustion engine, died.
1922: Every telephone in the U.S. and Canada went dead as
Bell System shut down all its switchboards and switching stations
for 1 minute, from from 6:25 to 6:26 PM, in memory of
Alexander Graham Bell,
who died two days earlier. 1954: Britain's first supersonic fighter plane, the
P-1 English Electric Lightning, made its maiden flight. 1954 :
The uranium rush began in Saskatchewan, Canada. 1971: The U.S. launched the first
satellite (subsatellite) into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft as part
of the Apollo 15
mission. 1977: U.S.
Department of Energy was created. 1987: The FCC voted 4-0 to rescind
the [un]Fairness Doctrine for broadcasters. 1998: The Dow Jones Industrial
Average (DJIA) plunged 299.43 points, the 3rd-biggest point drop up to
that time.
Note: These
historical tidbits (see daily
list) have been collected from various sources, mostly on the Internet.
As detailed in my
It Happened When? Factoid 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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