|
November 10
 1775: Birthday of the
U.S. Marine Corps - Semper Fi, and hoo-rah! 1861: Astronomer
Robert
Innes, who discovered
Proxima Centauri,
the closest star to our sun, was born. 1885: The world's first
motorcycle,
designed by Gottlieb Daimler, made its debut. 1895: American aviation pioneer
Jack Northrop
was born. 1928: Morris
Tanenbaum, inventor of the silicon microchip, was born. 1951: Direct-dial, coast-to-coast
telephone service in North America began with a call from Englewood, NJ to Alameda,
CA using the newly implemented
area codes. 1960: The
Yankee Atomic Electric Company's plant at Rowe, MA, became the
nation's first commercial nuclear power station to be connected to the grid. 1974:
The discovery of the "charmed quark" was announced by MIT and Berkley. 1975: The
Edmund Fitzgerald,
an ore-hauling ship, and its crew of 29 vanished during a storm in Lake Superior.
1983: The first computer
virus was demonstrated by Fred Cohen, a PhD candidate at USC. 1988: The Department
of Energy selected Texas as the site for the
Superconducting Super Collider, which, tragically, was cancelled
in 1993. 1994: William Higinbotham, who invented the first video game, "Tennis for
Two," died. 2003: The FCC approved the transfer of home numbers to cell phones.
2008: Kiyoshi Ito,
a mathematician whose innovative models of random motion are used today in fields
as diverse as finance and biology, died.
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.
|
