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 November 28
1895: The first
automobile race took place between Chicago and Waukegan, IL, with six cars,
and the winner averaged 7 mph on the 55-mile course. 1900: The
American League,
consisting of eight baseball teams, was organized in Philadelphia. 1925: The
Grand Ole Opry
in Nashville made its radio debut on station WSM. 1923: First
shortwave (109 meters) transatlantic DX established by radio amateur
Léon Deloy (call sign 8AB) in Nice, France, with F. H. Schnell (1MO) in Hartford,
Connecticut, USA. 1954: Italian-born Nobel physicist
Enrico Fermi died. 1963: Cape Canaveral was renamed
Cape Kennedy. 1964: The United
States launched the space probe
Mariner 4
on a course to Mars. 1983: 1st human Ham radio transmission from space by NASA STS-9
astronaut
Owen Garriott. 1994: Norway rejected membership in the
European Union for a second time. 1995: The federal 55 mph speed
limit was eliminated by Bill Clinton. 2000: The eighth tar drop fell in the University
of Queensland pitch drop experiment. 2010:
Samuel T.
Cohen, designer of the neutron bomb, died.
Note: These
historical tidbits (see daily
list) have been collected from various sources, mostly on the Internet.
As detailed in my
It Happened When? Factoid 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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