1857 – Heinrich Rodolf Hertz was born in
Hamburg, Germany. Hertz made key discoveries in optics but also transmitted and
received electromagnetic waves. His name has become used for the common unit of
frequency, Hz.
1924 – First Presidential
Radio Address
The first
presidential radio address is delivered by Calvin Coolidge. Broadcast from the
White House, the talk is carried on five stations with an estimated five
million listeners.
1928 – BASIC Co-Inventor
Thomas Kurtz Born
BASIC
co-inventor Thomas Kurtz is born. With John Kemeny, Kurtz developed he
easy-to-learn programming language for his students at Dartmouth College in the early 1960s. He said:”if Fortran is
the lingua franca … BASIC is the lingua playpen.”
1995 – Chicago stockbroker Steve Fossett
completed the first hot air balloon flight over the Pacific Ocean. At 9600 km
it was also the longest balloon flight.
1995 – US President Clinton signed an
Executive Order directing the declassification of intelligence imagery acquired
by the CORONA, ARGON and LANYARD US photo-reconnaissance satellites. More than
860,000 images of the Earth’s surface, collected between 1960 and 1972 were
made public.
1997 – Dolly Unveiled
In
Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that they have successfully cloned an
adult sheep they named Dolly. The cell used in the cloning came from an adult
sheep’s mammary gland, hence the name Dolly. As in Parton. No joke. Or I guess
it was.
1999 – AMD K6-III Sharptooth
Processor
AMD releases
the AMD K6-III Processor in speeds of 400 and 450 MHz. it would feature a 64 KB
Level 1 cache and a 256KB Level 2 cache. The 3DNow! Graphics instructions would
be supported, along with Direct X 6.0. There were 21.3 million transistors on
the 0.25 micron process wafer.
1999 – First Internet Only
Bank
The first
Internet Bank of Indiana opens, becoming the first full-service bank accessible
only through the Internet. Who knew it would take a couple of hoosiers to start
the first Internet bank?
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