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  February 2
Today is
Groundhog Day. 1887: Groundhog
Day was first observed in Punxsutawney,
PA. 1902: Russian
Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev, who developed the Periodic Table and
left places for undiscovered elements, died. 1923: World's first leaded gasoline
(Ethyl)
went on sale at Willard Talbott's service station in Dayton, OH. 1931: A rocket
was used for the first time to deliver mail in Austria by
Friedrich
Schmiemdl. 1949: The first 45 RPM record was released. 1996:
Ray McIntire,
inventor of Styrofoam, 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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