January 8th, 2009

Today in History

1958:
14 year old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship.

1935:
A.C. Hardy patents the spectrophotometer.

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

1806:
Cape Colony becomes a British colony.

1198:
Innocent III becomes Pope.