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 March 2
 1784:
Jean Blanchard made his first successful ascent in a balloon he
built himself. 1861: The
Patent Act of 1861 increased term of a patent
grant from 14 to 17 years (now it is 20 years). 1902:
Edward Condon,
of radar development and Franck-Condon fame, was born. 1904:
Theodor Seuss Geisel,
aka "Dr. Seuss," was born. 1949: Captain James Gallagher and his 13-man US Air Force
crew completed the first around-the-world non-stop flight in 94 hours in a
B-50 Superfortress, the "Lucky Lady II." 1969: The
Concorde supersonic
aircraft made its maiden flight. 1972: U.S. spacecraft
Pioneer 10 was launched and became the first man-made object to
leave the solar system. 1995: Yahoo! was incorporated. 2002:
Operation Anaconda began in Afghanistan.
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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