Events
- First version of WordPress released [2003]
- Dragon Quest game released [1986]
- Golden Gate Bridge opens [1937]
- Three Little Pigs cartoon released by Walt Disney Company [1933]
- First flight into stratosphere by balloon [1931]
- First transatlantic flight by aircraft completed [1919]
- Camera patented by Birt Acres [1895]
Birthdays
- Michael Buonauro [1979]
American webcomic artist - John Cockcroft [1897]
Nobel laureate known for his work on the development of nuclear power
Death Anniversaries
- Ed Yost [2007]
Inventor of the modern hot air balloon - Alex Toth [2006]
American cartoonist - Ernst Ruska [1988]
Nobel laureate known for electron optics - Robert Ripley [1949]
Developer of 'Ripley's Believe It or Not!' - Joseph Swan [1914]
One of the first inventors of the electric light bulb - Robert Koch [1910]
One of the founders of modern microbiology