Events
- 25 billionth app downloaded from Apple store [2012]
- Venera 14 lands on Venus [1982]
- ZX81 computer launched by Sinclair Research [1981]
- First Homebrew Computer Club meeting [1975]
- Iconic photo of Che Guevara taken [1960]
- Air brake patented by George Westinghouse [1872]
- Nicolaus Copernicus’s book is banned [1616]
Birthdays
- Fred [1931]
French artist, cartoonist and writer - Jean Tabary [1930]
Creator of 'Iznogoud' comic book series with René Goscinny - William Oughtred [1574]
Inventor of the slide rule
Death Anniversaries
- Ray Tomlinson [2016]
Creator of email - Joseph Weizenbaum [2008]
creator of the SLIP programming language - Pierre-Simon Laplace [1827]
French mathematician and statistician - Alessandro Volta [1827]
Pioneer of electricity and power and inventor of the electrical battery