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 September 27
 1825:
George Stephenson
operated the first locomotive that hauled a passenger car. 1831: The first meeting
of the
British Association for the Advancement of Science was held in
York. 1894: Lothar von Richthofen, WWI flying ace and brother of the Red Baron,
was born. 1892:
Book matches were patented by Joshua Pusey. 1918:
Sir Martin Ryle,
who developed the first synthetic aperture radio telescope systems, was born. 1938:
The Queen
Elizabeth was launched at the John Brown & Company shipyard at Clydebank,
Scotland. 1956: USAF Captain Milburn Apt piloted the
Bell X-2 to Mach 3.2, the first time past Mach 3. 1993: General
James "Jimmy" Doolittle, famous for, amongst other things, his
raid on Tokyo in 1942, died. 1997: The space shuttle "Atlantis" docked with the problem-plagued Russian "Mir" station
to drop off American David Wolf and pick up Michael Foale. 2003: The first European
mission to the Moon was launched aboard an
Ariane-5 rocket.
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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