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 October 16
 Today is Boss's Day (2007). 1758:
Noah Webster,
creator of America's first dictionary, was born. 1846: American dentist, Dr. William
Morton made the first public demonstration of the administration of
ether anesthetic. 1908: The first aeroplane flight in England
was made by Samuel
Franklin Cody. 1928: A patent was issued for the first commercially viable electric
light bulb frosted on the inside. 1962: The
Cuban
Missile Crisis began as President Kennedy was informed that reconnaissance photographs
had revealed the presence of Soviet-deployed missile bases in Cuba. 1964: China
detonated its first atomic bomb. 1987:
Hurricane winds battered southern England. 1999:
Jean Shepherd,
pioneer talk radio host, raconteur, and amateur radio operator (K2ORS), died. 2001:
Enron reported a 3rd quarter loss of $618 million. 2002: North Korea told the
United States it had a secret
nuclear weapons program in violation of a 1994
agreement signed with the Clinton administration. 2003:
Anadigics acquired Celeritek's power amp group. 2004: An unmanned
Chinese space capsule crash-landed into a house.
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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