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 March 16
 1750: English astronomer
Caroline
Herschel, the first woman to discover a new comet, was born. 1789: German physicist
Georg Simon Ohm,
in honor of whom the unit of resistance is named, was born. 1802: The U.S. Congress
established West Point Military Academy in NY. 1915: The
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) began operation. 1918: Nobel laureate
Frederick Reines, who discovered the neutrino, was born. 1922:
WKY-AM
in Oklahoma City began radio transmissions. 1926:
Robert
Goddard launched the first successful liquid-fuel rocket flight (to a height
of 184') in a field in Auburn, MA. 1927: Soviet cosmonaut
Vladimir
Komarov, who became the first human to die during a space mission when the parachute
failed to open on Soyuz 1, was born. 1935: Adolf Hitler ordered a German rearmament
and violated the
Treaty of Versailles. 1966: The first manned docking of two spacecraft
was accomplished by the
Gemini 8 spacecraft and the Gemini Agena target vehicle. 1988:
Saddam Hussein ordered the VX gassing of thousands of his own countrymen in
Halabja,
Iraq.
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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