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 November 26
 1801:
Charles Hatchett
announced his discovery of the element
columbium before
the Royal Society in London. 1867: The
refrigerated railroad car was patented by J.B. Sutherland. 1876:
Willis Carrier,
inventor of the first practical air conditioning system, "manufactured weather,"
was born. 1885: The first meteor trail was photographed by L. Weinek in Prague during an
Andromedid storm. 1922: The first successful
Technicolor
motion picture film, "The Toll of the
Sea," was released. 1934:
Beckman Instruments was incorporated. 1942: President Roosevelt
ordered nationwide
gasoline rationing, beginning December 1. 1953: The House of Lords
voted to allow
commercial television to compete with BBC. 1965: France launched
its first satellite, the
Asterix-1,
sending the 92-pound capsule into orbit with the Diamant booster. 1966: France opened
the world's first
tidal power station at Rance estuary, in Brittany. 2003: The
Concord
SST made its last flight.
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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