Posts Tagged ‘Albert Einstein’

March 14: Pi Day

Math Holiday: Pi Day Geek events to celebrate on March 14: 1794 – Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin. 1994 – Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released. 1995 – Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle. March 14 birthdays of geeky note: […]

January 2

Geek events to celebrate on January 2: 1860 – A new small planet named Vulcan is hypothesized to exist in orbit between the Mercury and the sun. The planet’s existence was questioned until it was finally negated in 1915 by Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Vulcan was later chosen as the fictional home planet for […]