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This day in history

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 6:54 pm
by 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.)

Re: This day in history

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 10:14 am
by Digit
February 20, 1947

Alan Turing Suggests Testing Artificial Intelligence with the Game of Chess

source

Re: This day in history

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 10:59 am
by Tally M.
In 1962, NASA first put an astronaut into orbit. John Glenn saw 3 sunsets & sunrises in 4 hrs & 56 mins.