Geek events to celebrate on January 31: 1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape. Geeks and nerds everywhere could finally make their broken glasses last a little longer. 1958 – The first successful launch of an American satellite (Explorer 1) into orbit.
Geek events to celebrate on January 27: 1888 – The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.. 1967 – More than sixty nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space. “Outer Space Treaty” becomes the coolest name for anything, ever. 2010 – Apple launches the iPad January 27 birthdays of geeky […]
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 […]