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 October 4
 1821:
John
Rennie, designer of the London Bridge, died. 1895: The first
U.S. Open golf tournament took place in Newport, RI, with Horace
Rawlins, 21 years old, as the winner. 1903:
John
Atanasoff, who was belatedly credited as the builder of the first electronic
digital computer (the
Atanasoff-Berry
Computer, ABC), was born. 1906:
Lothar Rohde, of the Rohde &
Schwarz test equipment company, was born. 1947:
Max Planck, who introduced quantum theory to the world, died.
1957: The Space Age began as the Soviet Union launched
Sputnik, the first
man-made satellite, into orbit. 1958:
Oliver R. Smoot,
as a pledge for the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity at MIT, was used as a standard to
measured the length of the Harvard Bridge; he later served as chairman of ANSI.
1958: The first trans-Atlantic passenger jetliner service was begun by British Overseas
Airways Corporation (BOAC) with
Comet 4 flights
between Heathrow airport and Idlewild (now JFK). 1976: British Rail began its new
125 mph
High Speed Train (HST) service. 1983: The first
Hooters restaurant
opened, in Clearwater, FL. 1995:
Edward
Lowe, inventor of kitty litter, died.
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Note: These
historical tidbits 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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