Events
- Curiosity rover lands on Mars [2012]
- I Am Rich – Useless app taken off store [2008]
- Partnership announced between Apple and Microsoft [1997]
- Meteorite may contain primitive life-forms [1996]
- Tim Berners-Lee announces his WWW project [1991]
- Metroid video games released by Nintendo [1986]
- World’s oldest tree cut down [1964]
Birthdays
- Kevin Mitnick [1963]
American computer hacker and security consultant - Radhia Cousot [1947]
Co-inventor of Abstract interpretation - Jon Postel [1943]
'God of the Internet' and one of the principal authors of the RFC - Cecil Howard Green [1900]
Co-founder of Texas Instruments - Alexander Fleming [1881]
Nobel laureate and discoverer of penicillin - Johann Bernoulli [1667]
Swiss mathematician and contributor to infinitesimal calculus
Death Anniversaries
- Edsger W. Dijkstra [2002]
First to implementor of ALGOL - Lillian Chestney [2000]
American illustrator and painter