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 […]
Geeky events to celebrate on January 21: 1968 – Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space. 1984 – The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to utilize the computer mouse and a window-based graphical user interface, is introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with its famous “1984” television commercial. January 22 birthdays […]
Holiday: National Hug Day I… am not sure what to say about this. Perhaps it was made so that all those naive, attention-depraved teenage girls and creepy-looking old men don’t have to reserve their “free hugs” signs just for cosplay and comic conventions. Don’t get me wrong. Hugs are great… when they are between two […]
Geek events to celebrate on January 10: 1962 – Apollo Project: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket booster. It became better known as the Saturn V moon rocket, which launched every Apollo moon mission.
Geek events to celebrate on January 4: 1958 – Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit. 1959 – Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon. January 4 birthdays of geeky note: 1643 – Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian and natural philosopher (d. March 31, […]