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  December 15
1791: The first ten amendments
to the Constitution, known as the
Bill
of Rights (yes, that includes the 2nd), went into effect following ratification
by the state of Virginia. 1819: Scottish chemist
Daniel Rutherford,
who discovered nitrogen, died. 1832: French architect
Gustave Eiffel,
of tower fame, was born. 1836: The
U.S. Patent Office caught
fire and burned to the ground. 1851:
Charles Duryea,
who along with his brother built the first commercially sold automobiles, was born.
1852:
Antoine Becquerel, who discovered radiation (Becquerel rays) from
uranium salts, was born. 1958: Austrian-Swiss Nobel physicist
Wolfgang Pauli, of Exclusion Principal fame, died. 1964: A patent
was granted to
Kenneth Olsen for a
magnetic
core memory. 2000: The
Chernobyl nuclear plant in the Ukraine shut down permanently,
14 years after its catastrophic meltdown. 2001: The
Leaning Tower of Pisa reopened to the public after a decade-long
restoration.
Note: These
historical tidbits (see daily
list) 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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