This day in history

[Giovanni Schwartz]

I figure that we can have one of these threads. If you know of anything interested that happened a specific day in history, then you can post here.

I'll go first:


http://drgrumpyinthehouse.blogspot.com/ ... -1942.html

If Day is also on Wikipedia, for corroboration. (I call posting anything from Dr. Grumpy. He's my hero.)

[Digit]

February 20, 1947

Alan Turing Suggests Testing Artificial Intelligence with the Game of Chess

source

[Tally M.]

In 1962, NASA first put an astronaut into orbit. John Glenn saw 3 sunsets & sunrises in 4 hrs & 56 mins.