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 September 24
 1852: The
dirigible
was demonstrated in a flight from Paris to Trappe. 1870:
Georges Claude,
inventor of the neon light, was born. 1877: Fire destroyed many patent models in
the "fire-proof"
U.S. Patent Office, but the important
illustrations records were saved. 1891:
William
Friedman, the cryptologist who broke the Japanese "Purple" code, permitting
the reading of many critical Japanese messages during WWII, was born. 1929: The
first all-instrument flight took place in New York when
Lt. James H. Doolittle guided a Consolidated NY2 Biplane over
Mitchell Field. 1930:
John Young, who commanded of the first Space Shuttle mission (STS-1,
1981), walked on the Moon during the
Apollo 16 mission, and made the first manned flight of the
Gemini III
spacecraft with Virgil Grissom, was born. 1945:
Hans Geiger,
inventor of the Geiger counter alpha particle detector, died. 1960: The first nuclear
powered aircraft carrier,
USS
Enterprise, was launched from Newport News, VA. 1975: Dougal Haston and Doug
Scott became the first Britons to reach the summit of
Mt. Everest. 1991:
Theodor Seuss Geisel,
aka "Dr. Seuss," 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.
Fair Use laws permit
small samples of copyrighted content.
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