|
 May 26
 1854:
Frederick Langenheim took the first photograph of a solar eclipse.
1872: A fire extinguisher was patented by Thomas J. Martin. 1874:
Henri Farman,
the airplane designer who invented ailerons, was born. 1888: Nobel Prize winner
Ascanio Sobrero, who discovered nitroglycerine, died. 1908: The
first major Middle East oil strike was made in Persia (now Iraq). 1927: Ford Motor
Company produced its last "Tin Lizzie." 1939:
Charles
Mayo, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic, died. 1946: A patent was filed in the U.S.
for an H-bomb. 1951: Sally Ride, the first American woman to orbit the earth when she
flew aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, was born. 1959: The word "Frisbee" became
a registered trademark of Wham-O. 1961: A U.S. Air Force bomber flew across the
Atlantic in a record time of just over three hours. 1969: The "Apollo 10" astronauts
returned to Earth after a successful 8-day dress rehearsal for the first manned
moon landing. 1981: Satya Pal Asija received the first U.S. patent for computer
software. 1994: President Clinton announced his administration would no longer link
China's trade status with its human rights record. 1999:
Waldo Semon,
the inventor of PVC plastic, died. 2003: English astronomer
Gerald Hawkins,
who first identified Stonehenge
as an astronomical observatory, died. 2007: Homer Stewart, an early pioneer of rocket
research who helped develop the first successful U.S. satellite, Explorer I, died.
| Jan
| Feb | Mar |
Apr | May |
Jun | Jul |
Aug | Sep |
Oct | Nov |
Dec |
Note: These
historical tidbits 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.
|
