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  December 29
1731: Brook Taylor, developer of the
Taylor Series
in mathematics, died. 1766: Scottish chemist
Charles
Macintosh, inventor of the rubberized raincoat that bears his name, was born.
1800: Charles
Goodyear, who invented vulcanization of rubber, was born. 1848: President James
Polk turned on the first
gas light at the White House. 1891: Thomas Edison was issued a
patent for "telegraphy without wires." 1905:
Henri-Gaston
Busignies, developer of HF (high frequency) direction finding equipment, was
born. 1929: German engineer
Wilhelm Maybach,
who invented the fuel spray carburetor, died. 1940: During WWII, Germany began dropping
incendiary bombs on London in what became known as "The Second Great Fire of London." 1949:
KC2XAK of Bridgeport,
CT, became the first UHF television station to begin operating on a regular daily
schedule. 1987: Cosmonaut
Yuri Romanenko ended his record 326-day space flight. 1999: The
NASDAQ closed above 4,000 for the first time, at 4,041.46, after
having 60 record highs for the year.
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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