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 September 16
 1620: The
Mayflower departed from Plymouth, England and arrived at Provincetown,
MA, on November 2nd and then at Plymouth, MA, on December 26th, with 102 passengers
onboard. 1736: Gabriel Fahrenheit, inventor of the temperature scale bearing
his name, died. 1877: Jacob Schick, inventor of the electric razor, was born. 1908:
General Motors was incorporated
by William Crapo "Billy"
Durant. 1914: The
Canadian Aviation Corps was formed. 1919: The
American Legion was created.
1919: Marvin Middlemark, inventor of the television "rabbit ears" antenna, was born. 1940: U.S. President Roosevelt
signed into law the
Selective Training and Service Act, which set up the first peacetime
military draft in U.S. history. 1963: "Outer Limits" premiered
on ABC. 1996: The
Telecommunications Act of 1996 went into effect to allow competition
for local phone service.
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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