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 June 17
 1832:
Sir William
Crookes, who showed that cathode rays were fast-moving electrons, was born.
1885: The
Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City aboard the French ship
Isere. 1928:
Amelia Earhart became the first woman to successfully fly across
the Atlantic Ocean. 1950: Dr. Richard Lawler performed the first
kidney transplant
in a 45-minute operation in Chicago, IL. 1957: W8YLN, illustrious radio amateur
and super proofreader for RF Cafe, was born. 1967: China tested its first
hydrogen bomb. 1972: The Watergate scandal began when 5 people
were arrested. 1980: Atari's "Asteroids" and "Lunar Lander" became first two video games assigned
a Copyright. 2005: Former
Tyco
CEO Dennis Kozlowski, and Mark H. Swartz, were convicted of looting their company
of more than $600 million.
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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