History This Week

A look back at events that made history this week -
compiled by the Summerland Amateur Radio Club of Lismore, NSW

Monday, 30 June, 2008

1699 Pirate Capt. William Kidd captured in Boston, MA, deported to England.

1801 Birth of FC Gerke, Germany, devised International Morse Code, 1865.

1850 The gas mask was patented by B.J. Lane of Cambridge, MA.

1858 The shoe manufacturing machine patented by Lyman Blake of Abington, MA, USA.

1885 Louis Pasteur does first effective anti-rabies inoculation on a bitten boy.

1886 The first rodeo in America was held at Prescott, Arizona.

1896 Marconi transmits 400 metres between London PO buildings.

1897 Marconi receives first patent for a radio device in Britain.

1914 AJ Roberts flies first Australian airship over Sydney.

1923 2FC in Sydney first commercial station licensed in OZ.

1928 Baird demonstrates colour TV.

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