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 March 29
 1848:
Niagara Falls stopped flowing for one day due to an ice jam. 1853:
Elihu Thomson,
electrical engineer and inventor whose discoveries in the field of alternating current
led to the development of successful alternating current motors, was born. 1886:
Dr. John Pemberton brewed the first batch of Coca Cola. 1906:
Hermann
Schwarz, of the Rohde & Schwarz test equipment company, was born. 1927:
For the first time an automobile, the "Mystery Sunbeam," exceeded 200 mph. 1932:
Jack Benny debuted
on radio. 1973: The U.S. withdrew from
Vietnam. 1974:
Mariner 10
took the first close-up pictures of Mercury. 1984: The
Baltimore Colts moved to Indianapolis under the cover of darkness.
1999: The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) closed above 10,000 for the first time. 2000: The Patent
and Trademark Office became the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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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