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 January 26
0066: The 5th recorded perihelion passage of
Halley's Comet occurred. 1875:
George Green
patented what is essentially the modern electric dental drill for sawing, filing,
dressing and polishing teeth. 1886: Karl Benz patented the first auto powered by
an internal combustion engine. 1891:
Nikolaus Otto,
developer of the 4-cycle internal combustion engine, died. 1911: Nobel physicist
Polykarp Kusch, who determined that the magnetic moment of the
electron is greater than its theoretical value, was born. 1911:
Glenn Curtiss
piloted the first successful seaplane in San Diego. 1921: Sony co-founder
Akio Morita
was born. 1942: The first U.S. force in Europe during WW II went ashore in Northern
Ireland. In 1926:
John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of a true
television system in London. 1950: India became a republic. 1998: Intel launched the 333 MHz Pentium
II chip. 2006:
Western Union sent its final telegram message.
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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