Events
- iPod Mini released [2004]
- Pyrenean ibex becomes extinct [2000]
- Peanuts appears as a Sunday comic strip [1952]
- Pepé Le Pew first cartoon [1945]
- Edison signs last patent application [1931]
- Alfred Wegener presents his theory of continental drift [1912]
- Telegraph system using dots and dashes demonstrated [1838]
Birthdays
- Daniel Weinreb [1959]
American computer scientist and programmer - Susan B. Horwitz [1955]
American computer scientist - Yuji Horii [1954]
Creator of 'Dragon Quest' series of games - John Maynard Smith [1920]
British geneticist and theoretical evolutionary biologist - Fred Kilgour [1914]
Founding director of OLCC, the Online Computer Library Center - Thomas Fincke [1561]
Named 'tangent' and 'secant' trigonometric functions
Death Anniversaries
- John Celardo [2012]
Comic strips and comic books artist - Rudi Bass [2011]
American graphic artist and illustrator - Don Martin [2000]
American cartoonist - Gregor Mendel [1884]
Father of Genetics - Louis Braille [1852]
Inventor of braille used by the visually impaired