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 June 6
 1844: The
YMCA was founded in London. 1850:
Ferdinand Braun, who shared a Nobel Prize with Guglielmo Marconi
for the development of wireless telegraphy, was born. 1925: Walter Chrysler founded
the Chrysler Corporation.
1933: The first drive-in theater opened, in Camden, NJ. 1936: The first helicopter
was tested in a building in Berlin, Germany. 1943: American Nobel physicist
Richard Smalley, co-discoverer of a form of carbon named the buckminsterfullerene
("buckyballs"), was born. 1944: The D-Day Invasion
in Europe (Operation Overlord) took place during World War II as 400,000 Allied
forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, where more than 6,000 U.S. troops
gave their lives (communiqué from
General Eisenhower). 1967: Arabs announced an
oil embargo
against the U.S. and Britain for support of the Israelis in the Six Day War. 1971:
Soyuz 11 was
launched. 1995: U.S. astronaut Norman Thagard, aboard the Russian space station
Mir, broke NASA's space endurance record of 84 days, one hour and 16 minutes. 2006:
Three planned explosions demolished the temporary water retaining wall at the
Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River.
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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