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  December 14
1546: Danish
astronomer Tycho Brahe
was born. 1896: General James "Jimmy" Doolittle, famous for, amongst other things, his raid
on Tokyo in 1942, was born. 1902: Laying down the first cable across the Pacific Ocean
began as the British Cable Ship
Silvertown
left San Francisco, California, headed for Hawaii. 1922: Nobel Prize winning Russian
physicist
Nikolay Basov, who developed the maser, was born. 1943: American
physician John
Kellogg, who invented the corn flake and founded a company bearing his name, died.
1962: U.S. space probe
Mariner
2 transmitted data from Venus, when it came within 22,000 miles of Venus and measured
the temperature and other characteristics of the planet. 1986:
Voyager, the experimental
aircraft piloted by
Dick
Rutan and
Jeana Yeager, took off from Edwards Air Force Base in California
on the first non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world. 1999:
Charles Schulz,
creator of the comic strip Peanuts, announced his retirement. 2004: The
Millau viaduct,
the highest bridge in the world, spanning the valley of the River Tarn near Millau,
France, was opened for traffic. 2011:
Norman Krim, designer of Raytheon's CK722 germanium PNP transistor, died.
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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