|
 January 15
 1861: The safety elevator was
patented as a "Hoisting
Apparatus" by Elisha Otis, of Yonkers, NY. 1870: The Democratic party was first
represented as a donkey in a cartoon by
Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly. 1907: The three-element vacuum
tube (triode)
patent was issued to its inventor, Dr. Lee de Forest as a "device for amplifying
feeble electric currents - such, for example, as telephone currents." 1908:
Edward Teller,
"father of the H-bomb," was born. 1943:
The Pentagon,
the world's highest capacity office building, was dedicated in Arlington, VA. 1967
:The first Super
Bowl was played as the Green Bay Packers of the NFL defeated the Kansas City
Chiefs of the American Football League, 35-10. 1970:
William Piper,
producer of the infamous J-3 aircraft, died. 1974: "Happy Days" first
aired on ABC. 2001: Wikipedia, the source used for many of the events listed here,
first went online.
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.
|
