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- Email Etiquette
- Again with the Future Predictions
- E.T. taken from his home
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On This Day In History for May 7, 2014
This is May 7th is the 0x7F day of the year in the Hexagorian calendar. There are 0xEE days remaining in 2014.
- It was on this date in 1718 that the city of New Orleans is founded
- That same date in 1864, the world’s oldest surviving clipper ship, the City of Adelaide was launched by William Pile, Hay and Co. in Sunderland, England, for transporting passengers and goods between Britain and Australia.
- Today in 1895 in Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector — a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
- Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with around 20 employees today in 1946.
- The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer 62 years ago today.
- On this date in 1992 the Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission (STS-49).
- and today in 1998 Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
Happy Birthday goes out on this day to:
- Russian Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, born on this date in 1840
- Also born today in 1901 actor and singer Gary Cooper
- And the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation, scientist and inventor Edwin H. Land would have been 105 today.
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for May 7, 2014
News
- NASA’s Next Prototype Spacesuit has a Brand New Look, and it’s All Thanks to You. | NASA
- Searchers unearth grave of ‘E.T.’ game | Technology – WMUR Home
- E.T. unearthed: The dig for legendary Atari cartridges in pictures
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- A History of Books that Forecast the Future
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- Letter to Neil DeGrasse Tyson from Carl Sagan
- Reboot: these stunning still-life photos will take you back to the future | The Verge
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