January 9th, 2009

Today in History

1995:
Valeri Poliakov completes 366 days in space while aboard the Mir space station, breaking a duration record.

1937:
The first issue of Look magazine goes on sale in the United States.

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

1882:
Oscar Wilde gives his first lecture on "The English Renaissance of Art" in New York.

1839:
The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.