January 9
1793: Jean Pierre Blanchard, using a hot-air balloon, flew between Philadelphia,
PA, and Woodbury, N.J. 1848: English astronomer
Caroline
Herschel, the first woman to discover a new comet, died. 1894: "Edison Kinetoscopic Record
of a Sneeze" was released in movie theaters. 1939: The discovery of element
Fr (francium) was reported by French chemist Marguerite Perey. 1951:
The
United Nations headquarters building in NYC officially opened.
1956: Snoopy from the Peanuts comic strip (my favorite) walked on two legs for the first
time. 1958: Willis Whitney, who founded the General Electric research laboratory,
died. 1986: Kodak exited the instant camera business after losing a patent lawsuit with
Polaroid. 1998: Scientists announced the discovery that some galaxies are actually
accelerating, flying apart at ever faster speeds. 2007: Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced
the first iPhone.
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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.
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