January 8th, 2009

Today in History

1994:
Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He will stay on the space station till March 22, 1995 for a record 437 days in space.

1986:
Hacker Manifesto written.

1977:
Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.

1935:
A.C. Hardy patents the spectrophotometer.

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