onthisday

#OnThisDay in 1978: The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago, Illinois). #fb Louis Trapani (@LouisTrapani) February 16, 2013

#OnThisDay in 1849: In NYC, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken. #fb Louis Trapani (@LouisTrapani) February 14, 2013

#OnThisDay in 1924: The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). #fb Louis Trapani (@LouisTrapani) February 14, 2013

Explains why the trash wasn’t picked up today ➡ #Born #OnThisDay 1809: Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the U.S. http://t.co/ZL9IYmph Louis Trapani (@LouisTrapani) February 12, 2013 Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas...

1st that we know of… #OnThisDay 2001: NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down on 433 Eros, becoming the 1st craft to land on an asteroid. #fb Louis Trapani (@LouisTrapani) February 12, 2013

#OnThisDay 1938: BBC produces the world’s 1st sci-fi TV program, an adaptation of the Karel Capek play RUR, that coined the term “robot” #fb Louis Trapani (@LouisTrapani) February 11, 2013

#OnThisDay in 1996: The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time. #fb Louis Trapani (@LouisTrapani) February 10, 2013

#OnThisDay 1974: After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth. #fb Louis Trapani (@LouisTrapani) February 08, 2013

#OnThisDay 1971: Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission. #fb Louis Trapani (@LouisTrapani) February 06, 2013

#OnThisDay 2003: Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere, killing all 7 astronauts aboard. Louis Trapani (@LouisTrapani) February 01, 2013