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 July 30
 1863:
Henry Ford
was born in Dearborn, MI. 1888:
Vladimir
Zworykin, inventor of the iconoscope and known as "the father of television,"
was born. 1898: Scientific American carried the first magazine automobile advertisement,
for the
Winton Auto Car Company. 1898: Corn Flakes were invented by William
Kellogg. 1909: The
Wright
Brothers deliver their first military plane, the Military Flyer, to the army.
1928: George Eastman
showed the first color motion pictures. 1946: The German V-2 reached an altitude
of 100 miles for the first time. 1956: The phrase “In
God We Trust” was adopted as the U.S. national motto. 1971:
Apollo 15, the
fourth manned lunar mission, landed on the moon. 1998: A group of 13 Ohio machinists
stepped forward to claim the $295.7 million
Powerball jackpot.
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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