Day in Engineering History Archive - January 23

Day in Engineering History January 23 Archive - RF CafeJanuary 23

1849: English-born Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in America to receive a medical degree. 1862: German mathematician David Hilbert, of Hilbert Transform fame, was born. 1930: Clyde Tombaugh first photographed the planet Pluto. 1950: Jerusalem became the official capital of Israel. 1960: The U.S. Navy bathyscaphe Trieste descended to a record depth of 35,820 feet (10,750 meters) in the Mariana Trench, in the Pacific Ocean. 1964: The first animal to human heart transplant was performed. 1983: The A-Team ("I pity the fool") debuted on NBC. 1996: Java 1.0 was released with the promise of being a Write Once Run Anywhere (WORA) programming language.

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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. 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.