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 October 28
 1703: English mathematician
John Wallis,
who introduced the infinity symbol (∞), died. 1886: The
Statue of
Liberty, a gift from the people of France, was dedicated in New York Harbor
by U.S. President Cleveland. 1914:
Dr. Jonas Salk,
inventor of the polio vaccine, was born. 1916:
Cleveland Abbe,
known as "the father of the U.S. Weather Bureau," died. 1922: The first coast-to-coast
radio broadcast of a football game was made. 1962: The
Cuban
Missile Crisis ended after Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announced that the
nuclear missile installations in Cuba would be dismantled. 1965: The
Gateway
Arch (Gateway to the West) along the waterfront
in St. Louis, MO, was completed. 1971: England became the 6th nation to launch a
satellite, the Prospero. 2005: American Nobel physicist
Richard Smalley, co-discoverer of a form of carbon named the buckminsterfullerene
("buckyballs"), 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.
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