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 January 27
 1880: Thomas Edison received a
patent for his incandescent
electric lamp. 1943: During World War II, the first all American air raid against
Germany took place when about 50 bombers attacked
Wilhelmshaven. 1967: A fire engulfed the
Apollo 1 spacecraft during a launch pad test, killing its crew
of three. 1967: Astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom died. 1981: U.S. President Reagan greeted
the 52 former American hostages released by Iran at the White House. 1989:
Sir Thomas
Sopwith, of Camel biplane and triplane fame, died. 1996: France conducted an
open-air nuclear test in the South Pacific. 2022: Radar technology pioneer
Merrill Skolnik died.
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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