Jerry Leventer

This Day In History: January 11, 2008
2001: The Federal Trade Commission approved the merger of AOL and Time Warner to form AOL Time Warner.
1935: Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
1922: Insulin was first used in a human patient to treat diabetes.
1902: Popular Mechanics magazine was first published.
1787: William [...]

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This Day In History:
2004: NASA Mars Rover (”Spirit”) successfully landed on Mars.
1962: New York City introduces a train that operates without a crew on-board.
1959: Luna 1 became the first spacecraft to approach the Moon.
1958: Russian space craft Sputnik 1 fell to Earth from its degraded orbit.
1493: Christopher Columbus left the [...]

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This Day In History: 1/1/2008
2000: the dreaded Y2K computer ‘millennium bug’ failed to appear as predicted.
1985: the first British mobile phone call was made by Ernie Wise to Vodafone; and the Internet’s Domain Name System was created.
1983: the ARPANET officially changed to using the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet.
1939: William (Bill) Hewlett [...]

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