Events
- Google starts selling Chromebook [2011]
- First nonstop transatlantic flight completed [1919]
- Horse’s feet leave ground photos [1878]
- Vulcanization patented by Charles Goodyear [1844]
- First air crash casualties [1785]
- Benjamin Franklin proves lightning is electricity [1752]
- First human blood transfusion [1667]
Important Celebrations and Functions
Birthdays
- Jack Horner [1946]
American palaeontologist and technical advisor in Jurassic Park movies - Neal Adams [1941]
American comic book artist - Ross Andru [1927]
American comic book artist and editor - Saul Steinberg [1914]
Romanian-American cartoonist and illustrator - Hilda Terry [1914]
Creator of Teena comic strip - Wilbert Awdry [1911]
Creator of Thomas the Tank Engine - Lisa del Giocondo [1479]
Subject of da Vinci's Mona Lisa
Death Anniversaries
- John Vincent Atanasoff [1995]
Inventor of world's first electronic digital computer - Kristian Birkeland [1917]
Inventor of the electromagnetic cannon - Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier [1785]
First human to ascend on a hot air balloon