Events
- Instagram users can now post videos [2013]
- Wikimedia Foundation founded [2003]
- Asteroid Eureka discovered [1990]
- Jaws (film) released in the US [1975]
- First man-made object in space [1944]
- First commercial telephone service [1877]
- Samuel Morse gets patent for telegraph [1840]
- First steam ship to cross the Atlantic [1819]
Birthdays
- Karlheinz Brandenburg [1954]
Developer of the mp3 file format - Reginald Punnett [1875]
Scientific author and developer of the Punnett square - Frederick Gowland Hopkins [1861]
Discoverer of vitamins
Death Anniversaries
- John David Wilson [2013]
Father of the conceptual music video - Jack Kilby [2005]
Nobel laureate who developed the first integrated circuit - Erwin Chargaff [2002]
Biochemist who formulated the Chargaff's rules that helped in determination of structure of DNA - Jay Miner [1994]
IC chip designer and the Father of the Amiga - Georges Lemaître [1966]
Belgian physicist who was first to postulate expanding nature of the universe