- 1907 American actress Katharine Hepburn born; record 4 Best Actress Oscars; Morning Glory (1933, Oscar), Little Women (), Alice Adams (1935), Stage Door (1937), Bringing Up Baby (1938), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Woman of the Year (1942), The African Queen (1951), Pat and Mike (1952), Desk Set (1957), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967, Oscar), The Lion in Winter (1969, Oscar), On Golden Pond (1981, Oscar).
- 1910 English chemist Dorothy Hodgkin born; 1964 Nobel, for discovering numerous 3-D structures of biologically active molecules, including cholesterol (1937), penicillin (1946) and vitamin B-12 (1956), and the X-ray crystallographic techniques do to so; taught British P.M. Margaret Thatcher (B.Sc for crystallography).
- 1941 German engineer Konrad Zuse demonstrates world's first (semi) programmable computer, the Z3, with two registers and 64 words of memory, each 22 bits wide; with program stored on paper (film) tape, it is only missing a branch instruction.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Today in History: May 12
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment
We reserve the right to delete comments, but the failure to delete any particular comment should not be interpreted as an endorsement thereof.
In general, we expect comments to be relevant to the story, or to a prior comment that is relevant; and we expect some minimal level of civility. Defining that line is inherently subjective, so try to stay clear of insulting remarks. If you respond to a comment that is later deleted, we may take your response with it. Deleting your comment isn't a personal knock on you, so don't take it as such.
We allow a variety of ways for commenters to identify themselves; those who choose not to do so should take extra care. Absent any prior context in which they may be understood, ironic comments may be misinterpreted. Once you've earned a reputation for contributing to a conversation, we are likely to be more tolerant in those gray areas, as we'll understand where you're coming from.