Events
- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requests asylum [2012]
- iPhone 3GS starts selling [2009]
- Yahoo! launches RocketMail brand [2008]
- Five billion songs sold on iTunes [2008]
- Garfield first appearance [1978]
- Patent Cooperation Treaty signed [1970]
- Tasmanian Devil (Taz) first appearance [1954]
- First NASCAR race [1949]
- NBC founded [1926]
- First Father’s Day celebration [1910]
Important Celebrations and Functions
Birthdays
- Dennis Crowley [1976]
Founder of Foursquare and Dodgeball social networking sites - George de Mestral [1907]
Inventor of hook and loop fastener (Velcro) - Peder Oluf Pedersen [1874]
Developer of the arc converter and the telegraphone - Silvanus P. Thompson [1851]
British electrical engineer and popular academic author - Friedrich Sertürner [1783]
Discoverer of morphine - Blaise Pascal [1623]
Inventor of the mechanical calculator
Death Anniversaries
- Fernand Seguin [1988]
Host of popular science programs - Lotte Reiniger [1981]
Pioneered of silhouette animation