January 7th, 2009

Today in History

1954:
The first public demonstration of a machine translation system was held in New York at the head office of IBM.

1935:
World War II: Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Italo-French agreements.

1901:
Alferd Packer is released from prison after serving 18 years for cannibalism.

1785:
Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England to Calais, France in a gas balloon, becoming the first to cross the English Channel by air.

1598:
Boris Godunov seizes the throne of Russia.