January 9th, 2009

Today in History

1996:
Sun Microsystems announces the formation of JavaSoft.

1923:
Juan de la Cierva makes first autogiro flight.

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.

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

1806:
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson is buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.