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Events

• Benjamin Hanks applied for a patent for a self-winding clock– 1783
• American Chess Association founded– 1857
• The Naval War College founded at Newport, RI– 1884
• Babe Ruth hit 3 home runs in World Series game– 1926
• Premiere of The Jazz Singer, the first feature talking picture, which starred Al Jolson– 1927
• The nuclear submarine U.S.S. Seawolf established an underseas record when it comes to the surface of the Atlantic Ocean near Block Island, after having cruised submerged for 60 days– 1958
• Joseph Charles began 30 years of waving to motorists in Berkeley, CA– 1962
• Greater Winnipeg Floodway (Duff’s Ditch) completed, Manitoba– 1969
• A magnitude 2.0 earthquake registered 15 miles east of Keene, NH– 2004
• Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle, and George E. Smith won the Nobel Prize in physics for their contributions toward fiber optics and digital photography. Kao, of Standard Telecommunication Laboratories in Harlow, UK, and Chinese University of Hong Kong, won half the prize for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication… . [In 1966] he carefully calculated how to transmit light over long distances via optical glass fibers. With a fiber of purest glass it would be possible to transmit light signals over 100 kilometers, compared to only 20 meters for the fibers available in the 1960s. Boyle and Smith, both from Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., shared the other half of the prize for the 1969 invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor… . The CCD is the digital camera’s electronic eye. It revolutionized photography, as light could now be captured electronically instead of on film. – 2009
• 249 combines reaped 200 acres of oats in about 12 minutes, in Dalmeny, Saskatchewan– 2012
• Takaaki Kajita of Japan and Arthur McDonald of Canada won the Nobel Prize in physics for their work on neutrinos– 2015