Events
- Human Genome Project gets completed [2003]
- Space Shuttle Columbia completes text flight successfully [1981]
- Sputnik 2 falls from orbit [1958]
- Video tape demonstrated for the first time [1956]
- The Grapes of Wrath published [1939]
- Titanic hits an iceberg [1912]
- First commercial motion picture house opens [1894]
- First edition of Webster’s dictionary copyrighted [1828]
Birthdays
- Osamu Sato [1960]
Japanese composer, graphic designer and photographer - Dave Gibbons [1949]
English comic book artist and writer - Sheldon Moldoff [1920]
American comic book artist - Christiaan Huygens [1629]
Mathematician, astronomer, physicist and inventor of the pendulum - Abraham Ortelius [1527]
Creator of the first modern atlas
Death Anniversaries
- Phil Katz [2000]
Co-creator of the Zip file format - Emmy Noether [1935]
German Jewish mathematician - L. L. Zamenhof [1917]
Creator of Esperanto language