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 October 5
 1582: The
Gregorian calendar was introduced in Italy and some other Catholic
countries. 1882: Robert Goddard, "the father of modern rocketry," was born. 1930:
Pavel Popovich,
who along with fellow cosmonaut
Andriyan
Nikolayev became the first pair of humans in space, was born. 1947:
President Truman delivered the first televised White House address,
where in he asked Americans to refrain from eating certain foods to stockpile supplies
for sending to Europeans suffering from crop failures. 1966: A partial core meltdown
at the
Enrico Fermi nuclear breeder reactor killed three workers. 1970:
The Public Broadcasting
System (PBS) officially became a network. 1983:
Earl Tupper, inventor of the plastic Tupperware, died. 1992: 1992:
Both houses of Congress voted to override President Bush's veto of a measure to
re-regulate cable television companies. 1996: Supercomputer pioneer
Seymour Cray
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.
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small samples of copyrighted content.
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