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 October 11
 1844:
Henry John
Heinz, founder of the J.H. Heinz Company and originator of the "57 Varieties"
slogan, was born. 1887: A patent for the first keypad adding machine, the "Macaroni box"
Comptometer, was granted to
Dorr Felt. 1889:
James
Joule, discoverer of the current / resistance / heat relationship and after
whom the unit of energy is named, died. 1950: The FCC adopted CBS's
field-sequential mechanical color TV broadcast standard. 1958:
Lunar probe Pioneer
1 was launched; it failed to go as far out as planned, fell back to Earth, and
burned up in the atmosphere. 1974: U.S.
Energy Reorganizing Act abolished the Atomic Energy Commission
(AEC) and created both the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the Energy Research
and Development Administration (ERDA - now the DoE). 1983: The last
hand-cranked (magneto) telephones in the U.S. went out of service
as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, ME, were switched to direct-dial service.
1984: Space Shuttle "Challenger" astronaut
Kathy Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space.
1994: NASA's Magellan
spacecraft made a dramatic conclusion to its highly successful mission at Venus
when it is commanded to plunge into the planet's dense atmosphere.
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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