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 May 31
 1790: The
U.S. Copyright
Law was passed. 1852: German physician
Richard
Petri, inventor of the Petri Dish, was born. 1879:
Madison Square Garden opened, and the first electric railway opened
at the Berlin Trades Exposition. 1889: More than 2,000 people perished
when a dam break sent water rushing through
Johnstown,
PA. 1915: A German zeppelin made an air raid on London. 1977: The
Trans-Alaska
oil pipeline was completed after three years of work. 2005: "Deep Throat," of Watergate fame, finally identified himself after
30 years.
Note: These
historical tidbits (see daily
list) have been collected from various sources, mostly on the Internet.
As detailed in my
It Happened When? Factoid 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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