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 26
1829: Blue jeans inventor Levi Strauss died. 1866: American industrialist Herbert Dow, founder of Dow Chemical Company, was born. 1852: American physician John Kellogg, who invented the corn flake and founded a company bearing his name, was born. 1896: Henri Becquerel unintentionally discovered radioactivity from uranium caused by the element having sat upon a photographic plate in his desk drawer. 1903: Richard Gatling, inventor of the Gatling machine gun, died. 1933: A ground-breaking ceremony was held at Crissy Field for the Golden Gate Bridge. 1935: Radar (RAdio Detection And Ranging) was first demonstrated by Sir Robert Watson-Watt of England. 1966: The first Saturn 1B rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral, FL, on an unmanned suborbital test flight. 1970: National Public Radio (NPR) was founded. 1991: Iraqi troops fled Kuwait City. 1993: Muslim terrorists exploded a bomb in the parking garage of the World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000 others.
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