Events
- 40 billion apps downloaded [2013]
- Safari browser launched as a beta [2003]
- Translation by a machine demonstrated for the first time [1954]
- First transatlantic telephone service established [1927]
- Dickson receives patent for motion picture film [1894]
- Galilean moons observed by Galileo Galilei [1610]
Birthdays
- Jann Wenner [1946]
Co-founder 'Rolling Stone' magazine - Gerald Durrell [1925]
British naturalist, TV presenter, zookeeper and author - Charles Addams [1912]
Developer of the characters of 'The Addams Family' - Johann Philipp Reis [1834]
Inventor of the Reis telephone - Sandford Fleming [1827]
Proposer of worldwide standard time zones
Death Anniversaries
- Georges Wolinski [2015]
French cartoonist and comics writer - P. D. Eastman [1986]
American author and illustrator - Nikola Tesla [1943]
Pioneer in the field of A/C current - Ignacy Łukasiewicz [1882]
Inventor of the modern kerosene lamp