January 8th, 2009

Today in History

2005:
The trans-Neptunian object 2003 UB<sub>313</SUB> is discovered.

1997:
computer processer Pentium MMX introduced by Intel.

1982:
AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.

1918:
President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.

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