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April 2007
San Francisco earthquake
This day, 1906, a major earthquake [caused by a rupture along San Andreas Fault] struck San Francisco leaving over half of the city’s population (410,000) homeless. The United States Geological Survey estimates that the quake measured 7.9 on the ...
Mustang public launch
The Ford Mustang was first introduced to the public at the New York World’s Fair this day, 1964. It was one of the most successful product launches in automotive history. The Mustang sold over one million units in its first 18 months on the marke...
Masada siege ends in tragedy
Masada, a site of ancient palaces on top of an isolated rock plateau overlooking the Dead Sea [fortified by Herod the Great as a refuge in case of revolt], became famous when a three month siege of the fortress by troops of the Roman Empire led to a ma...
Unsinkable sinks!
RMS Titanic was an Olympic class passenger liner that became infamous for her collision with an iceberg, dramatically sinking on this day, 1912. The second of a trio of superliners, Titanic and her sisters were designed to provide a three-ship weekly e...
Ford's Theatre takes centre stage
Ford’s Theatre in Washington DC, became well known when it became the site of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, this day, 1865. After being shot by Confederate spy, John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln was carried across the street to the Pet...
Woolworth replaces haggling
American merchant, Franklin Winfield Woolworth, was born this day, 1852. Founder of F.W. Woolworth Company, an operator of discount stores, he pioneered the now-common practices of buying merchandise direct from manufacturers and fixing prices on items...
Gagarin in Earth orbit
The Vostok programme (translated as “East”) was a Soviet spaceflight project that succeeded in putting a human - cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin - into Earth orbit for the first time, this day, 1961. During his Vostok 1 flight, Gagarin famously whi...
Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13
A fated Apollo 13 launched this day 1970, NASA’s third manned lunar-landing mission. Despite a crippled Service Module - losing it’s oxygen and electrical power, the crew managed to save themselves using the Lunar Module as a “lifeboa...
Inception date of the Internet
ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) became the technical core of what would become the Internet, and a primary tool in developing the technologies used. ARPANET development was centered around the Request for Comments (RFC) process, sti...
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November 2006
Color Picker gets a Web 2.0 make over
Veerle Pieters (web designer extordinaire) test drives the new color palette tool Kuler from Adobe Labs. Create and share color themes, comment and rate others.
RSS icon project
by 1 otherEver wondered where you can get your hands on original source files for those little orange criters? Check out Matt Brett’s standardisation project - Feed Icons.
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