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 October 30
 1867: U.S. Bureau of Standards scientist
Louis
Austin, who pioneered long-range radio broadcasts, was born. 1888: The first
U.S. patent for a ballpoint pen was issued to John Loud of Weymouth, MA. 1894: Daniel
Cooper of Rochester, N.Y., received the first U.S. patent for a
punch card
time clock. 1937: The closest approach to the earth by an asteroid,
Hermes, was
measured to be 485,000 miles. 1938: The radio play "The War of the Worlds,"
starring Orson Welles, aired on CBS. 1961: The Soviet Union detonated a 58 megaton
hydrogen bomb over
Novaya Zemlya, and is still the largest nuclear device to ever
be detonated. 1979: Sir Barnes Wallis, inventor of the WWII, 9 kilopound "dambuster"
bombs, 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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