Today in History
Listings for Saturday, April 25, 2020.
Birthdays:
- 1599 Oliver Cromwell, British Puritan reformer, roundhead
- 1849 C.F. Klein --1925
- 1874 Guglielmo Marconi, Bologna Italy, invented radio, (Nobel 1909)
- 1908 Edward R. Murrow, set the standard for TV correspondents.
- 1918 Ella Fitzgerald
- 1930 Paul Mazursky
- 1932 Meadowlark Lemon
- 1940 Al Pacino
- 1945 Bjorn Ulvaeus
- 1945 Stu Cook
- 1946 Talia Shire
- 1964 Hank Azaria
- 1969 Renee Zellweger
Events:
- Arbor Day. Plant a tree.
- TV-Turnoff Week
- 1901 New York becomes first state requiring license plates for cars
- 1945 United Nations Conference starts.
- 1957 First experimental sodium nuclear reactor starts up.
- 1959 St Lawrence Seaway opens to shipping
- 1961 Mercury/Atlas rocket lifts off with an electronic mannequin.
- 1961 Robert Noyce is granted a patent for the integrated circuit.
- 1972 Glider pilot Hans Grosse flies a record 1461 km
- 1975 First Boeing Jetfoil service, Hong Kong to Macao.
- 2003 Judge rules companies providing Peer to Peer file sharing are not liable for copyright infringements of users (MGM v. Grokster).
That's all for today.