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Events on 24 February

Events

• 10 billionth song downloaded from iTunes [2010]
• Sun Microsystems founded [1982]
• First perforated postage stamp issued – Penny Red [1854]
• Inter gravissimas issued announcing the Gregorian calendar [1582]

Birthdays

• Brian Schmidt [1967]
  Nobel Prize winning American-Australian astrophysicist
• Steve Jobs [1955]
  Co-founder Apple
• Sid Meier [1954]
  Canadian programmer and designer of strategy and simulation video games

Death Anniversaries

• Janice Marian Berenstain [2012]
  Co-creator of 'The Berenstain Bears' series of books
• Anant Pai [2011]
  Pioneer of comic books in India
• Claude Shannon [2001]
  Father of information theory
• Antonio Prohías [1998]
  Creator of 'Spy vs. Spy' comic strips
• Robert Fulton [1815]
  American inventor and engineer
• Étienne-Louis Malus [1812]
  Discoverer of polarisation of light
• Henry Cavendish [1810]
  British naturalist best known for discovering hydrogen