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- Presidential Candidates as D&D Characters
- YouTube multi-downloader
- The great Technorama 2008 challenge
On This Day in Tech History
- 1687 – Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.
- 1863 – The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful
Confederate cruiser, was destroyed on her maiden voyage with cargo of
munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000.
The wreck was discovered on the same day and month, exactly 102 years
later by then teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee
Spence. - 1915 – Pluto is photographed for the first time but was not recognized as a planet.
- 1916 – Eight American planes take off in pursuit of Pancho Villa, the first United States air-combat mission in history.
- 1918 – The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.
- 1932 – The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.
- 1969 – collapse of 385 metre tall TV-mast at Emley Moor, UK, because of icing.
- 1979 – The United States House of Representatives begins
broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network
C-SPAN.
Births
- 1813 – David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and explorer (d. 1873)
- 1883 – Walter Haworth, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1950)
- 1900 – Fr
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