January 9th, 2009

Today in History

1996:
Sun Microsystems announces the formation of JavaSoft.

1905:
According to the Julian Calendar which was used at the time, Russian workers stage a march on the Winter Palace that ends in the massacre by Czarist troops known as Bloody Sunday, setting off the Russian Revolution of 1905.

1903:
Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the famous poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia

1894:
New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.

1878:
Humbert I becomes King of Italy.