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 June 28
  1886:
John Renshaw
Carson, developer of the Carson Rule of FM, BW = 2(Δf + fm),
was born. 1886: Henri Moissan's discovery of
fluorine gas was announced at the Paris Academy of Science. 1886:
The first scheduled Canadian transcontinental
passenger
train departed from Montreal, Quebec for Port Moody, British, Columbia. 1889:
Maria Mitchell,
the first professional female astronomer in the U.S., died. 1919: The
Treaty
of Versailles was signed in France, ending World War I. 1939:
Pan American Airways began the first transatlantic passenger air
service. 1950: North Korean forces captured
Seoul, South Korea. 1960: In Cuba, Fidel Castro confiscated American-owned
oil refineries without compensation (Hugo Chavez just did the
same in May 2007 - Citgo gas stations are owned by his government). 1965: The first
commercial telephone conversation over a satellite took place between America and
Europe over Early
Bird I. 1976: The first women entered the
U.S. Air Force Academy, in CO. 1990: Paperback Software was found
guilty of copyright violation for copying the appearance and menu system of Lotus
1-2-3. 1991: Margaret Thatcher announced her retirement from the House of Commons.
2004: The U.S. transferred sovereignty back to
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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