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 January 22
1892: French aircraft designer
Marcel Dassault was born. 1900:
David
Hughes, inventor of the carbon microphone, died. 1970: The first regularly scheduled
commercial flight of the Boeing 747 began in New York City and ended in London, 6 1/2 hours
later. 1984: The Macintosh computer was announced. 1992:
Dr. Roberta
Bondar became the first Canadian woman in space, aboard the Space Shuttle. 1994:
Irving Berlin Kahn, inventor of the
teleprompter,
died. 1997:
Lottie Williams, of Oklahoma, officially became the first human
to be struck by a remnant of a space vehicle after re-entering the earth's atmosphere.
2003: The final contact with the
Pioneer 10 spacecraft was made.
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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