Events
Birthdays
- Bud Paxson [1935]
Founder of Pax TV and precursor of Home Shopping Network - George Adamski [1891]
Polish-American ufologist - J. P. Morgan [1837]
Founder of J.P. Morgan & Co. - Alexander Cartwright [1820]
Inventor of baseball game - Friedrich Koenig [1774]
Co-inventor of the high-speed printing press - Giovanni Battista Riccioli [1598]
Italian astronomer who introduced the lunar nomenclature scheme
Death Anniversaries
- Robert Atkins [2003]
Creator of the Atkins Diet - Jean Baptiste Perrin [1942]
Nobel laureate who proved the atomic nature of matter - George Jennings [1882]
Inventor of the first public flush toilets - Benjamin Franklin [1790]
American inventor, scientist, politician and author