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Events on 9 July

Events

• Donkey Kong game launched by Nintendo [1981]
• Mario first appearance [1981]
• Birth of pop art – Andy Worhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans exhibition [1962]
• First Wimbledon tennis championship [1877]

Birthdays

• Marc Andreessen [1971]
  Creator of NCSA Mosaic web browser
• Oliver Sacks [1933]
  Neurologist and famous author
• Janice Lourie [1930]
  American computer scientist and graphic artist
• Murphy Anderson [1926]
  American comic book artist
• John Archibald Wheeler [1911]
  Theoretical physicist who coined 'wormhole' and 'blackhole'
• Basil Wolverton [1909]
  American cartoonist and illustrator
• Elias Howe [1819]
  One of the inventors of the sewing machine

Death Anniversaries

• King Camp Gillette [1932]
  Creator of the safety razor
• Paul Broca [1880]
  French anatomist known for his work on the human brain
• Anna Atkins [1871]
  First person to publish a book with photographs
• Amedeo Avogadro [1856]
  Italian physicist known for Avogadro's Law and Avogadro's Constant