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 November 5
 1824: The
Rensselaer School was founded in Troy, NY, becoming the first
engineering college in the U.S. 1863:
James Packard,
of automotive fame, was born. 1879:
James Clerk Maxwell,
whose equations have tortured countless EE students, died at age 48. 1895: The first
U.S. patent was granted to George B. Selden for the auto. 1901: Henry Ford received
a patent for a motor carriage. 1906: Astronomer
Fred
Whipple, who proposed the "dirty snowball" model for comets, was born. 1914:
Great Britain, France & Russia declared war on Turkey. 1935: Edwin Armstrong
first demonstrated FM radio at a meeting of the Institute of Radio Engineers. 1935:
Parker Brothers launched the game of Monopoly. 1959: The American Football League
was formed. 1992: Jan Hendrik Oort, Dutch physicist and astronomer of Oort Cloud fame, died. 1992:
Chemical evidence of 5,000 year old beer was found in cave in Iran.
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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