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Events on 7 July

Events

• 15 billion apps downloaded from apple store [2011]
• Gmail comes out of beta [2009]
• First software MP3 encoder released [1994]
• Laser announced by inventor Ted Maiman [1960]
• Planet Venus occults Regulus [1959]
• Roswell incident of a alien spaceship crashing [1947]
• Sliced bread sold for the first time [1928]

Important Celebrations and Functions

• World Chocolate Day

Birthdays

• Natsuki Takaya [1973]
  Japanese manga artist
• Adele Goldberg [1945]
  PARC researcher who developed Smalltalk-80 programming language
• Otto Frederick Rohwedder [1880]
  Inventor of sliced bread
• Joseph Marie Jacquard [1752]
  Inventor of the Jacquard loom

Death Anniversaries

• Ub Iwerks [1971]
  Inventor, animator and cartoonist at Disney
• Allen Lane [1970]
  Co-founder of Penguin Books
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [1930]
  British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes
• Henri Nestlé [1890]
  Founder of Nestlé