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 January 20
  1775:
André-Marie
Ampère, after whom the unit of current is named, was born. 1901:
Zénobe-Théophile
Gramme, inventor of the Gramme dynamo, died. 1915: The
U.S. Coast
Guard was created by an act of Congress. 1930: Apollo 11 lunar lander astronaut
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin
was born. 1960: The U.S. Army promoted
Elvis Presley to the rank of Sergeant. 1969: Astronomers at the
University of Arizona documented the first optical identification of a pulsar. 1981:
Iran released 52 Americans that had been held
hostage
for 444 days, just minutes after the U.S. presidency had transferred from Jimmy
Carter to Ronald Reagan. 1986: Britain and France announced plans to build the Chunnel
- rail tunnels underneath the English Channel. 2004: The
Salvation Army announced it had received a $1.5B donation from
the estate of Joan Kroc, widow of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc.
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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