Note:
These historical tidbits 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.
All will eventually be either verified or removed.
Please
submit
significant historical events and dates for inclusion in these lists. I will be glad to
include your name and birthday. Please do not submit your death date ;-)
February 23
1836: The siege of the Alamo began in San Antonio, TX. 1855: German mathematician and experimenter in magnetism Carl Friedrich Gauss died. 1886: Charles Hall separated aluminum for ore using an electrolytic process. 1893: Rudolf Diesel (I kid you not) received a German patent for the diesel engine. 1927: The Federal Radio Commission (FRC, later became the FCC) began assigning frequencies, hours of operation and power allocations for radio broadcasters. 1936: The first (and last) rocket-powered air mail flight was made from Greenwood Lake, NY to NJ in the rocketplane Gloria. 1944: Leo Baekeland, inventor of Bakelite, which played a large role as an insulator in early electronics, died. 1945: U.S. Marines raised the American flag on Iwo Jima, creating the subject for the infamous photo & statue. 1954: The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine began in Pittsburgh, PA. 1987: At 10:42 am, the Minister for Communications for Australia received his country's first official call via an analogue mobile phone. 1995: The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) closed above 4,000 for the first time. 1997: A fire erupted on the Mir space station. 2006: The 1 billionth tune was downloaded from the iTunes music store website.
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