January 8th, 2009

Today in History

1966:
Operation Crimp of the Vietnam War.

1935:
A.C. Hardy patents the spectrophotometer.

1889:
Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine.

1867:
African American men granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia.

1838:
Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).