Events
- CNN launched [1980]
- First applications filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty [1978]
- Heimlich manoeuvre published [1974]
- Soyuz 9 launched by the Soviet Union [1970]
- Development of photosensitive glass announced [1947]
- First pay telephone installed [1889]
- Edison gets his first patent – voting machine [1869]
- General Dutch Typographer Union forms [1866]
- First known record of first Scotch Whisky batch [1495]
Birthdays
- Markus Alexej Persson [1979]
Creator of Minecraft game - John C. Reynolds [1935]
American computer scientist - Frank Whittle [1907]
Inventor of the turbojet engine - Henry Faulds [1843]
Developer of fingerprint identification - Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot [1796]
Father of thermodynamics
Death Anniversaries
- Hank Ketcham [2001]
Creator of Dennis the Menace - Christopher Cockerell [1999]
Inventor of the hovercraft - Nicolas Appert [1841]
Inventor of canning