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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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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.
Robert Kane (October 24, 1915 – November 3, 1998) was an American comic book writer and artist who co-created, with Bill Finger, the DC Comics character Batman.
The 24th of October is celebrated in Germany as the national day of libraries. After all, we have around 11,000 libraries in the land of poets and thinkers, whose extensive offerings are to be honoured today with numerous events and campaigns.
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, investor, author, philanthropist, and humanitarian. He is best known as the principal founder of Microsoft Corporation.
The Council of Elrond was the secret council called by Elrond in Rivendell in order to decide what should be done with the One Ring, during the Great Years in the Third Age. Those present at this council were people of the three largest races of good in Middle-earth: Men, Elves, and Dwarves.
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was an early packet-switching network and the first network to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet. The ARPANET was initially founded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the United States Department of Defense. On 29.10.1969 the first message was transmitted over the ARPANET.
With the US National Checklists Day, October 30 celebrates no less than the world's checklists.
Carlo Pedersoli (31 October 1929 – 27 June 2016), known professionally as Bud Spencer, was an Italian actor, professional swimmer and water polo player.
Sir Peter Robert Jackson (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He is best known as the director, writer, and producer of the Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–03) and the Hobbit trilogy (2012–14).
Michael Collins (born October 31, 1930) is an American former astronaut, test pilot, and retired major general of the United States Air Force Reserves. Selected as part of the third group of fourteen astronauts in 1963, he flew into space twice.
The Walking Dead is an American post-apocalyptic horror television series for AMC based on the comic book series by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard.
Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, a digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange that uses cryptography to control its creation and management, rather than relying on central authorities. On 31.10.2008 Satoshi Nakamoto published a paper about the basic principles of Bitcoin.