Today in History
Listings for Friday, May 22, 2020.
Birthdays:
- 1813 Richard Wagner
- 1828 Albrecht Grafe, pioneer eye surgeon, founded modern ophthalmolog
- 1844 Mary Cassat
- 1848 H.C.H. Schubert --1911
- 1859 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, brought Sherlock Holmes to life (twice)
- 1907 Laurence Olivier, actor
- 1920 Thomas Gold, astronomer, established the steady-state theory of the universe.
- 1938 Richard Benjamin
- 1938 Susan Strasberg
- 1941 Paul Winfield
- 1959 Morrissey
- 1970 Naomi Campbell
Events:
- 1990 Windows 3.0 released, supporting 80386 processor.
- 2002 Sun Microsystems releases Solaris 9.
That's all for today.
