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Events on 8 March

Events

• CD demonstrated by Philips for the first time [1979]
• First episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy transmitted [1978]
• First woman to get a pilot license [1910]
• New York Stock Exchange founded [1817]
• Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion [1618]

Birthdays

• Michael S. Hart [1947]
  Founder of Project Gutenberg and inventor of the e-book
• Gerald Potterton [1931]
  British-Canadian animator and director
• Gerard Salton [1927]
  Father of Information Retrieval
• Ralph H. Baer [1922]
  The Father of Video Games
• Shigeru Mizuki [1922]
  Japanese manga artist and writer
• Howard H. Aiken [1900]
  Pioneer of computing and designer of the ASCC
• Otto Hahn [1879]
  Father of Nuclear Chemistry who discovered nuclear fission
• Frederic Goudy [1865]
  American typographer
• Kenneth Grahame [1859]
  British writer known for 'The Wind in the Willows'
• LaMarcus Adna Thompson [1848]
  Inventor of the roller coaster and other gravity rides
• Josephine Cochrane [1839]
  Co-inventor of the first commercially successful automatic dishwasher
• Ignacy Łukasiewicz [1822]
  Inventor of the modern kerosene lamp

Death Anniversaries

• Jesse Shera [1982]
  American librarian and information scientist
• Max Miedinger [1980]
  Designer of Helvetica typeface
• Hachikō [1935]
  Japanese dog famous for his loyalty featured in movies, statues, books etc.
• Johannes Diderik van der Waals [1923]
  Dutch theoretical physicist
• Ferdinand von Zeppelin [1917]
  Founder of the Zeppelin airship company