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 October 8
 1860: A
telegraph line between Los Angeles
and San Francisco was placed in operation. 1871: The
Great Fire
of Chicago broke out destroying about 17,450 buildings, killing 250 people and
leaving 90,000 homeless. 1873: Danish astronomer
Ejnar Hertzsprung, who co-developed the
Hertzsprung-Russell diagram relating star temperatures with brightness,
was born. 1904: Clemens Winkler (no relation to
The Fonz),
discoverer of the element
germanium, died. 1913:
Robert Gilruth,
developer of the Bell X-1 supersonic airplane, was born. 1958: Dr. Ake Senning implanted
the first internal
heart pacemaker. 1973: Britain's first independent radio station, London Broadcasting
Company (LBC) began broadcasting today on VHF and medium wave. 2001: Two
Russian cosmonauts made the first spacewalk to be conducted outside of the International
Space Station (ISS) without a shuttle present. 2011:
Dennis Richie, developer of the "C" programming language, died.
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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