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 October 24
1601: Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe died. 1804: German physicist
Wilhelm
Weber, after whom the unit of magnetic flux is named, was born. 1861: The first
transcontinental telegraph message was sent as Justice Stephen
Field of California transmitted a telegram to President Lincoln. 1836: Alonzo Phillips
received the U.S. patent #68 for the phosphorous
friction safety
match. 1901: Annie Edson Taylor made the first barrel ride over the Niagara
Falls. 1910:
Blanche Scott became the first woman to make a solo, public airplane
flight, reaching an altitude of 12 feet at a park in Fort Wayne, IN. 1938: The
Fair
Labor Standards Act established the first minimum wage of 33 cents per hour.
1940: The
40-hour work week went into effect under the Fair Labor Standards
Act of 1938. 1940: French physicist
Pierre-Ernest Weiss, who determined the Weiss magneton unit of
magnetic moment, died. 1941:
William Noyes,
who was the first chemist hired by the U.S. Bureau of Standards, died. 2003: The
Concord
SST made its final landing at Heathrow airport.
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.
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small samples of copyrighted content.
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