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 May 28
585 BC: The first known prediction of a
solar
eclipse was made in Greece by the philosopher Thales. 1738: French physician
Joseph
Guillotin, after whom the guillotine is named, was born. 1843:
Noah Webster, creator of America's first dictionary, died. 1863:
The first Black regiment from the North, the
54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, left Boston to fight in
the Civil War (see the movie "Glory"). 1897: Jell-O
was introduced. 1912:
Lecoq de Boisbaudran, discoverer of gallium, died. 1920:
Marlan Bourns, founder of Bourns and inventor of the Trimpot™
trimming potentiometer, was born. 1937: TheGolden Gate Bridge was opened to the public for vehicle traffic.
1946: The first night game was played at
Yankee Stadium. 1959: One Rhesus and one Squirrel monkey (Abel
and Baker), were launched for a brief suborbital space flight in the nose cone of
Jupiter Missile AM-18 where they reached 300 miles altitude, and
traveled at speeds over 10k mph. 1971: The U.S.S.R.
Mars 3 was launched
and later became first craft ever to land on Mars. 1987: 19-year-old West German
pilot Mathias
Rust landed a Cessna 172 in Red Square in Moscow - unimpressed officials detained
him for 15 months.
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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