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Events on 12 December

Events

• Apple Computers goes public [1980]
• First amateur radio satellite launched [1961]

Birthdays

• Tony Hsieh [1973]
  Co-founder LinkExchange
• Ari Lemmke [1963]
• Martin Cooper [1928]
  Father of the cell phone
• Robert Noyce [1927]
  Co-founder of Intel and Fairchild Semiconductor
• Fred Kida [1920]
  Japanese-American comic book artist
• Dan DeCarlo [1919]
  American cartoonist known for 'Archie Comics'
• Mária Telkes [1900]
  Creator of the the first thermoelectric power generator and the first thermoelectric refrigerator
• Edvard Munch [1863]
  Norwegian painter and printmaker famous for 'The Scream'

Death Anniversaries

• Norman Bridwell [2014]
  American author, cartoonist and creator of 'Clifford the Big Red Dog' series of books
• Alan Shugart [2006]
  Founder of Seagate Technologies and Shugart Associates
• Joseph Heller [1999]
  Author of 'Catch-22'