|
  December 5
1848: President Polk triggered the
Gold Rush of '49 by confirming in an address to Congress that
gold had been discovered in California. 1879: American aviation pioneer
Clyde Cessna
was born. 1901: German physicist and Nobel Prize winner
Werner Heisenberg, famous for his Heisenberg Principle, was born.
1955: American aircraft designer
Glen L(uther)
Martin died. 1958: The first stretch of Britain's
M6 Motorway,
officially opened. 1973:
Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, "Father of Radar," died. 1995:
Englishman Stanley Runcorn, discoverer of earth's magnetic core reversals,
died.
| Jan
| Feb | Mar |
Apr | May |
Jun | Jul |
Aug | Sep |
Oct | Nov |
Dec |
Note: These
historical tidbits 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.
|
