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 September 1
 1486: The first known
copyright was issued in Venice. 1859: A solar flare (Carrington's
Flare)was observed for the first time by astronomer
Richard Carrington.
1865: Joseph
Lister (think
Listerine) performed the first antiseptic surgery. In 1878,
Emma Nutt became the first female telephone operator in the U.S.
1939:
World War II began when Germany invaded Poland. 1953: The
first
aerial refueling of a jet aircraft by a jet tanker is made with a B-47 Stratojet
by a KB-47B tanker. 1961: The Soviet Union ended a moratorium on
atomic bomb
testing. 1979: Pioneer 11 became the first spacecraft to visit Saturn. 1997: The discovery of a
new sub-atomic particle was announced, called the
exotic meson.
1998:
Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit his 56th and 57th home
runs, breaking the one-season record set by Hack Wilson in 1930.
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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