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 July 8
 1695:
Christiaan
Huygens, discoverer of the wave theory of light and of Saturn's moon
Titan, died. 1831:
John
Pemberton, the pharmacist who invented Coca-Cola, was born. 1838:
Count
Ferdinand von Zeppelin, of airship fame, was born. 1856: Charles Barnes patented
a crank operated
machine gun. 1873: Anna Nichols became the first woman patent
examiner. 1889:
The Wall Street Journal was first published. 1932: At the low
point of The Great Depression, the DJIA
hit 41.22. 1937: England began its 999 emergency phone system. 1947: The Roswell
Daily Record headline read, "RAAF Captures
Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell Region." 1958: The first gold
record album was presented by the
RIAA
for the soundtrack "Oklahoma!" 1969: The withdrawal of American troops from
Vietnam began. 1994: Kim Il Sung, North Korea's communist leader
since 1948, died at age 82, and was succeeded by the maniacal little pot-bellied
Kim Jung Il. 1999: Astronaut
Charles "Pete"
Conrad Jr., the third man to walk on the moon, died in a motorcycle accident.
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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