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 January 24
 1848: James Marshall discovered
a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill in northern CA, which led to the gold rush of '49.
1888: Ernst
Heinkel, inventor of the first jet-powered aircraft, was born. 1916: The U.S.
Supreme Court ruled that
income tax was unconstitutional. 1935:
Beer was first sold in cans, by Krueger Brewing Co. 1948: IBM
dedicated its "SSEC," the
Selective
Sequence Electronic Calculator, that handled both data and instructions using
electronic circuits made with 13,500 vacuum tubes and 21,000 relays. 1950: The
microwave oven was patented by Percy Spencer. 1961:
Afred
Gilbert, inventor of the
Erector Set, died. 1965:
Sir Winston
Churchill died in London at age 90. 1978:
Cosmos 954,
a nuclear-powered Soviet satellite plunged through Earth's atmosphere and disintegrated
scattering radioactive debris over parts of Canada's Northwest Territory. 1984:
Apple Computer released the first model of the
Macintosh.
1986: The
Voyager 2 space probe swept past Uranus, coming within 50,679
miles of the seventh planet of the solar system. 2003: The United States
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was formally activated.
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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