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
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