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 November 2
 1815: English mathematician
George Boole,
of Boolean
algebra fame, was born. 1885: American astronomer
Harlow Shapley,
who discovered the sun's position in the Milky Way galaxy, was born. 1920: Pittsburgh
radio station
KDKA made first commercial radio broadcast - presidential election
results (between Warren Harding and James Cox - Harding won). 1936: BBC Television
Service inaugurated the world's first regular, public,
high-definition television
broadcasting system. 1947: Howard Hughes flew his huge wooden airplane, the Spruce
Goose, on its only flight, which lasted about a minute. 1982: Barney Clark had the
world's first artificial heart transplant. 1988: Robert Morris released what is
considered to be the first successful worm (Morris Worm)
or Internet. 1992: The Airbus A330 first flew. 2000: An American astronaut and two
Russian cosmonauts became the first permanent residents of the International Space
Station.
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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