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 September 28
 1850: The U.S. Navy abolished
flogging as a form of punishment. 1895: French microbiologist
Louis Pasteur,
who developed the pasteurization process for milk preservation and developed the
rabies vaccine, died. 1924: Two U.S. Army Air Service
DT-2 airplanes
landed in Seattle, WA, after completing the first
round-the-world flight in 175 days. 1928: Alexander Fleming discovered
penicillin in the mold Penicillium notatum. 1925: Supercomputer
pioneer Seymour
Cray was born. 1938: Charles Duryea, who along with his brother built the first commercially
sold automobiles, died. 1953: Astronomer
Edwin Hubbell
died. 1955: The
World Series was televised in color for the first time. 1980:
Carl Sagan's 13-part "Cosmos"
premiered on PBS. 1989: Jeffrey Petkovich and Peter Debernardi were the first duo
ever to survive going over the 176-foot-high
Niagara Falls in the same barrel. 1997: The 103rd convention of
the Audio Engineering Society (AES) was held in New York City, NY, and officially
debuted the DVD
format.
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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