On this date (March 14), we celebrate a serendipitous concurrence of events: it’s Pi Day, and it’s Albert Einstein’s 132nd birthday. The day of the irrational number, and the hyper-rational theoretical physicist… what could be more perfect? We have the
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On this date, March the 2nd, in 1904, Was born the Great Geisel, with nicknames galore. His mom called him Theo when she poured his juice, But most of us knew Theo as Dr. Seuss! He spoke of blue fish,
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On this date (Feb 28), we mark the end of Black History Month. Since the late 1970s, Black History Month has been observed/celebrated annually in the US and Canada in February, and in the UK in October. This time of
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On this date (Feb 15), in 2005, YouTube was launched. To say that it was a successful launch would be an understatement… less than two years after the company was founded, our future overlord Google bought it for $1.65 billion!
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On this date (Feb 10) in 1996, Deep Blue, an IBM supercomputer, beat Garry Kasparov in the opening game of their first chess tournament. At that time, Deep Blue was the first machine to win a chess game against a
