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Events on 11 February

Events

• Chrome Web Store opens [2011]
• Anna Kournikova virus launched [2001]
• First ever science fiction TV program [1938]

Birthdays

• Mo Willems [1968]
  American author, animator and illustrator
• Mike Markkula [1942]
  American entrepreneur and later CEO of Apple Computer
• Andrew Donald Booth [1918]
  British electrical engineer and computer scientist
• Elsa Beskow [1874]
  Swedish author and illustrator
• Thomas Edison [1847]
  Prolific inventor and developer of the DC electric system
• Almon Brown Strowger [1839]
  Inventor of the rotary dial on telephones known for the Strowger Switch
• Henry Fox Talbot [1800]
  Inventor of salted paper and talbotype photographic processes

Death Anniversaries

• Jiro Taniguchi [2017]
  Japanese manga artist
• Charles Algernon Parsons [1931]
  Inventor of the compound steam turbine
• René Descartes [1650]
  Great mathematician, scientist and philosopher