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 November 3
 1749: Scottish chemist
Daniel Rutherford,
who discovered nitrogen, was born. 1892:
Almon Strowger commissioned the first automatic telephone in his
hometown of LaPorte, IN. 1906: The
SOS (••• --- ••• in
Morse Code) radio distress signal, chosen for its distinct signature, (not for Save Our Ship), was adopted at the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin.
1926: Charles Lindbergh was forced to bail out of his DeHavilland DH4 biplane during
a night airmail delivery flight. 1957:
Sputnik II,
with the second manmade satellite to be put into orbit and the first animal (a dog
named Laika) put into space, was launched by the Soviet Union. 1971: The first edition
of the UNIX Programmer's Manual, by Thompson and Ritchie, was published. 1973: The
Mariner 10
spacecraft was launched and became the first manmade object to reach Mercury. 2004:
The first felony prosecution of spammers resulted in the conviction of a brother/sister
team.
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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