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 July 22
 1784:
Friedrich
Bessel, of Bessel function fame, was born. 1844: Rev. William Archibald Spooner,
inventor of "spoonerisms,"
was born. 1873: Louis Pasteur received a patent for the manufacture of beer and
treatment of yeast. 1918: Lightning killed 504 sheep in Utah's
Wasatch National Park.
1926:
Babe Ruth caught a baseball at Mitchell Field that had been dropped
from an airplane flying at 250 feet. 1933:
Wiley Post ended
his around-the-world flight after traveling 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours and
45 minutes in his single-engine
Lockheed Vega
5B. 1942: Gasoline rationing using coupons began for WWII conservation. 1956:
Air Force Capt. Frank Everest set a new unofficial world's speed record of Mach
2.87 (1,900 mph) in the Bell X-2 rocket plane. 1989: 11 year old
Tony Aliengena became the youngest pilot to fly around the world,
taking nearly seven weeks and 21,567 miles. 2003:
Uday and Qusay Hussein were killed in a gun battle in Iraq.
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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