Geeky Holidays Party excuses for the geek in everyone.

Geek events to celebrate on March 25:

1807 – The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger carrying railway in the world.

1948 – The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.

1979 – The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.

1995 – WikiWikiWeb, the world’s first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham.

March 25 birthdays of geeky note:

1643 – Louis Moréri, French encylopedist (d. 1680)

1928 – Jim Lovell, American astronaut

1946 – Maurice Krafft, French vulcanologist (d. 1991)