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Track the anniversaries, birthdays, first appearances and wonderfully odd celebrations hiding across gaming, science fiction, technology and internet culture.
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Monkey Island is a series of adventure games. The first four games in the series were produced and published by LucasArts. The fifth installment of the franchise was developed by Telltale Games in collaboration with LucasArts. The games follow the misadventures of the hapless Guybrush Threepwood as he struggles to become the most notorious pirate in the Caribbean.
The spacecraft Jupiter 2 takes off in 1997. On board is family Robbinson and their crew (Lost in Space).
William Alison Anders (born October 17, 1933), is a retired United States Air Force Major general, former electrical engineer, nuclear engineer, NASA astronaut, and businessman.
The 17th of October Day of Spreadsheets honors a software that has revolutionized office work and the daily handling of numbers forever. At least in the USA, where this date is celebrated as National Spreadsheet Day.
Knowing (stylized as KNOW1NG) is a 2009 science fiction thriller film directed by Alex Proyas and starring Nicolas Cage.
Ubuntu is a free and open-source Linux distribution based on Debian. Ubuntu is officially released in three editions: Desktop, Server, and Core. All the editions can run on the computer alone, or e.g. in Windows. Ubuntu is a popular operating system for cloud computing, with support for OpenStack.
Alfred Bernhard Nobel (21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish businessman, chemist, engineer, inventor, and philanthropist. Nobel held 355 different patents, dynamite being the most famous. The synthetic element nobelium was named after him.
Carrie Frances Fisher (October 21, 1956 – December 27, 2016) was an American actress, writer and comedian. Fisher is best known for playing Princess Leia in the Star Wars films, a role for which she was nominated for four Saturn Awards.
21 October is all about apples. At least if it goes to our British neighbours, this date since 1990 as the national day of the apple celebrate.
Microsoft Lumia is a discontinued line of mobile devices that was originally designed and marketed by Nokia and later by Microsoft Mobile. Introduced in November 2011, the line was the result of a long-term partnership between Nokia and Microsoft as such, Lumia smartphones run on Microsoft software, the Windows Phone operating system; and later the newer Windows 10 Mobile.
On 22 October, friends of the cultivated capitalization around the world - ATTENTION - Wordplay - will be celebrating in big style. Since the year 2000 this date stands for the International Day of CAPS LOG.
Randolph Frederick Pausch (October 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) was an American professor of computer science, human–computer interaction, and design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Since 1991, the US American Day of the Mole has been celebrating the chemical unit of measurement. Sometimes you are astonished again and again what there is a special day for.
Happy birthday iPod. On October 23, 2001, Apple introduced the iPod to the astonished world public. The US National iPod Day commemorates this and celebrates a device that has revolutionized the way people listen to music.