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 October 6
 1813: Pioneer watchmaker
Edward Howard was born. 1846:
George
Westinghouse, founder of Westinghouse Electric Company and inventor of railway
braking systems, was born. 1868: A patent for
nickel plating was awarded to William Remington. 1903: Nobel Prize
winner Ernest Walton, co-inventor of the first nuclear particle accelerator,
was born. 1923: Edwin Hubble identified the first
Cepheid variable star. 1942:
Electric photography (xerography or photocopying) patent was received
in by Chester Carlson. 1951:
W(ill) K(eith) Kellogg, founder of the Kellogg cereal company,
died. 1966: Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) was declared
illegal in the U.S. 1973: Egypt and Syria launched an attack against Israel, starting
the Yom Kippur
War. 1987: Microsoft introduced the PC version of
Excel.
1995: Astronomers at the Geneva Observatory in Switzerland announced the first
ever discovery of a planet orbiting the solar-type star,
51 Pegasi.
Note: These
historical tidbits (see daily
list) have been collected from various sources, mostly on the Internet.
As detailed in my
It Happened When? Factoid 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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