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 March 10
 1762: German chemist
Jeremias Richter, who discovered law of equivalent proportions, was born. 1876:
Alexander Graham Bell made the successful call with the telephone,
when he spoke the words "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you." 1880: The Salvation
Army began operation in the U.S. 1902:
Alec Harley Reeves,
inventor of pulse coded modulation (PCM), was born. 1948:
Herbert H. Hoover became the first civilian pilot to exceed the
speed of sound in the Bell X-1 research aircraft at Edwards AFB, CA. 1971: The U.S.
Senate approved an amendment to lower the
voting age to 18. 1977: The rings of
Uranus
were discovered. 1982: A rare
syzygy
occurred where all 9 planets aligned on same side of Sun. 2000: The
NASDAQ
index peaked at its final high 5,132.52, signaling the end of the Dot-Com boom.
2006: NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrived at Mars. 2022: Inventor, engineer,
author, and speaker Robert
W. Lucky died.
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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