Day in Engineering History Archive - November 10

November 10

United States Marine Corps Established - RF Cafe1775: Birthday of the U.S. Marine Corps - Semper Fi, and hoo-rah! 1861: Astronomer Robert Innes, who discovered Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our sun, was born. 1885: The world's first motorcycle, designed by Gottlieb Daimler, made its debut. 1895: American aviation pioneer Jack Northrop was born. 1928: Morris Tanenbaum, inventor of the silicon microchip, was born. 1951: Direct-dial, coast-to-coast telephone service in North America began with a call from Englewood, NJ to Alameda, CA using the newly implemented area codes. 1960: The Yankee Atomic Electric Company's plant at Rowe, MA, became the nation's first commercial nuclear power station to be connected to the grid. 1974: The discovery of the "charmed quark" was announced by MIT and Berkley. 1975: The Edmund Fitzgerald, an ore-hauling ship, and its crew of 29 vanished during a storm in Lake Superior. 1983: The first computer virus was demonstrated by Fred Cohen, a PhD candidate at USC. 1988: The Department of Energy selected Texas as the site for the Superconducting Super Collider, which, tragically, was cancelled in 1993. 1994: William Higinbotham, who invented the first video game, "Tennis for Two," died. 2003: The FCC approved the transfer of home numbers to cell phones. 2008: Kiyoshi Ito, a mathematician whose innovative models of random motion are used today in fields as diverse as finance and biology, died.

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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.