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 January 14
1741 (O.S.): English astronomer
Edmond Halley,
who discovered the comet that now bears his name, died. 1873: "Celluloid" was registered as a trademark by John Hyatt. 1934:
French scientist
Paul Vieille, inventor of smokeless gun powder, died. 1943: American biochemist
Shannon Lucid,
who stayed aboard the Russian space station Mir in 1996 for a women's record-breaking
188 days, was born. 1981: The FCC freed stations to air as many commercials an hour
as they wish. 2005: The
Huygens
space probe landed on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, being the most distant landing.
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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