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 October 17
 1887: German physicist
Gustav Kirchhoff,
who formulated Kirchhoff's Laws of current and voltage in closed circuits, died.
1919: The
Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was founded. 1933:
Albert Einstein
arrived in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany. 1956: Britain's first
nuclear power station opened in Calder Hall. 1956: American
Mae Jemison, the first Black woman in space, was born. 1961: Police
killed 210 Algerians in France during the "Battle
of Paris." 1963: French mathematician
Jacques-Salomon
Hadamard, who proved the prime number theorem, died. 1973: 5-month
oil embargo by Arab states against U.S. and Netherlands began.
1989: A powerful earthquake hit San Francisco, damaging the
Bay Bridge. 1915:
Nicholas Constantine Metropolis, designer of the MANIAC computer
used to develop the atom bomb, died. 2006: The
Census Clock at the Department of Commerce turned over 300,000,000.
2012: NiMH Battery Inventor
Stanford
Ovshinsky Died.
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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