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 July 18
 0064: The
Great Fire
of Rome began, as Emperor Nero reportedly fiddled on the roof. 1635:
Robert Hooke,
who developed Hooke's Law for springs, was born. 1853:
Hendrik Lorentz, after whom the Lorentz force in electromagnetism
is named, was born. 1941: The
Messerschmitt
Me 262 jet fighter made its first flight, only with propeller power. 1955: The
first electrical power generated from a
nuclear station was sold commercially by the
Utah Power
and Light Company. 1958:
Henri
Farman, the airplane designer who invented ailerons, died. 1963: The first implantation
of an intrathoracic left artificial ventricle in a human being was made. 1968: The
Intel Corporation
was incorporated by Noyce and Moore as N M Electronics. 1969: A car driven by Senator
Edward Kennedy plunged off a bridge on
Chappaquiddick
Island near Martha's Vineyard, leaving Mary Jo Kopechne to drown. 1980: India
became the 6th nation to place a satellite, the
Rohini-1,
in orbit. 1997: Eugene Shoemaker, of Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 fame, 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.
Fair Use laws permit
small samples of copyrighted content.
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