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 September 26
 1772: The "Act to Regulate the
Practice of Physick & Surgery within the colony of New Jersey," the first
doctor licensing commission in the U.S., was put into effect.
1789: George Washington appointed Samuel Osgood of Massachusetts as the first
Postmaster General
under the Constitution. 1818:
Dr. James Blundell preformed the first transfusion using human
blood, as opposed to animal blood. 1868:
August
Möbius, the mathematician who invented the famous single-sided strip that bears
his name, died. 1871: A patent was issued to David Saylor for the composition of
Portland cement. 1887:
Sir Barnes Wallis,
inventor of the WWII, 9 kilopound "dambuster" bombs, was born. 1902: Blue jean inventor
Levi Strauss
died. 1914: The Federal
Trade Commission (FTC) was established. 1981: The
Boeing 767-200 made its maiden flight in Everett, WA. 1982:
Paul Kollsman, inventor of the first accurate barometric altimeter,
died. 1984: U.K. and China agreed to
Hong Kong handover. 1991: Four men and four women began a 2-year
stay inside
Biosphere Two, in Oracle, AZ. 1996: Astronaut
Shannon Lucid returned to Earth in the shuttle Atlantis after
6 months aboard the Russian Mir space station. 2002:
Nils Bohlin,
inventor of the 3-point should and lap safety belt, 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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