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LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Apple Inc. said late Wednesday that the company's founder and former chief executive Steve Jobs has died. Jobs was 56. "We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today. Steve's brilliance...
Clarence Seward Darrow was born at Kinsman, Ohio on this day in 1857. The son of the undertaker, he joined the Ohio bar in 1878. From there he moved on to Chicago where he became the City’s General Counsel. Later he worked as an attorney for the...
Internet messages started with a crash 40 years ago today , and life hasn't been the same since. “We transmitted the ‘L’ … and the ‘O’ — and then the other computer crashed,” says UCLA's Leonard Kleinrock, who helped send that first message on...
William Henry Gates III was born at Seattle Washington on this day in 1955. He attended the exclusive Lakeside School, where the Mothers Club used rummage sale proceeds to create one of the first computer labs ever installed in a high school. Because...
On this day in 1914 the first official Traffic Light went into operation on East 105th Street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio. Although there had been previous attempts, like the one that killed a policeman in London in 1869. This one...
Since Ted Kekatos, a SysAdmin in the Chicago area suggested the day, to the first celebration on July 28, 2000. System Administrator Appreciation Day has become the one day a year set aside to show your appreciation for those people who keep all your...
It was on this day in 1969 that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped down from Apollo 11's Lunar Lander, the Eagle, and onto the fine dust in the Sea of Tranquility on the moon, the first time earthlings made that trip. We all cheered. I'm often...
Nikolaus August Otto was born at Holzhausen, Germany on this day in 1832. In 1861 he patented a two-stroke gas powered (gas, not gasoline) internal combustion engine. The only previous internal combustion engine was best suited to converting fuel to waste...
Leonardo da Vinci was born at Anchiano, Italy on this day in 1452, the illegitimate son of Ser piero da Vinci. He was apprenticed to the artist Andrea del Verrocchio, but soon developed his own style which became the High Renaissance standard when Michelangelo...