Events
- iPad Air 2 launched [2014]
- iPad Air revealed [2013]
- 200 millionth app sold on iTunes [2008]
- Grand Theft Auto III released [2001]
- Venera 9 lands on Venus [1975]
- Luna 12 launched [1966]
- Greenwich longitude adopted as Universal Time meridian [1884]
- Edison tests his electric bulb [1879]
- First human to jump using parachute [1797]
Important Celebrations and Functions
Birthdays
- Brewster Kahle [1960]
Creator of WAIS and founder of Internet Archive, Alexa and other online properties - Keith Parkinson [1958]
American illustrator and fantasy artist - Stanley Mazor [1941]
Co-inventor of the Intel 4004, world's first microprocessor - Robert Rauschenberg [1925]
American painter and graphic artist - Alexander Kronrod [1921]
Soviet mathematician and computer scientist - Karl Guthe Jansky [1905]
One of the founders of radio astronomy - Clinton Davisson [1881]
Nobel laureate and discoverer of electron diffraction
Death Anniversaries
- Murphy Anderson [2015]
American comic book artist - George McManus [1954]
Creator of 'Bringing Up Father' comic strip