71st anniversary of War of the Worlds Broadcast

In 1938 on the night of October 30th, CBS aired War Of th Worlds. It was a radio drama that for the first 2/3 of the hour was a series of simulated news broadcasts suggesting that the Earth was being attacked by Aliens. People thought it was real and totally freaked out. It made lots of people really scared.

Anniversary of the internet (1969)

At 10:30 pm on the night of October 29th 1969 in UCLA. It was a simple transmission that took place, a remote log in. Actually the transmission crashed during the login and the lo of login was all that went through. 40 years later I am using the same technology to write of the event and publish it for the entire world.

The Day the Infant Internet Uttered its First Words

Leonard Kleinrock

Below is a record of the first message ever sent over the ARPANET. It took place at 22:30 hours on October 29, 1969. This record is an excerpt from the "IMP Log" that we kept at UCLA. I was supervising the student/programmer Charley Kline (CSK) and we set up a message transmission to go from the UCLA SDS Sigma 7 Host computer to the SRI SDS 940 Host computer. The transmission itself was simply to "login" to SRI from UCLA. We succeeded in transmitting the "l" and the "o" and then the system crashed! Hence, the first message on the Internet was "Lo!". We were able to do the full login about an hour later.

Statue of Liberty Day

The Statue of Liberty is gift from France commemorating the 100th year of our Countries Independence. It represents a woman in a stola, wearing a crown and sandals, crushing a chain with a torch in her right hand and a tablet with MDCCLXXVI which is 1776 written in Roman Numerals. At the time it was given and erected it was designed to greet people as they came to this country from Europe and into Ellis Island. This was of course before the Jet Age when people travelled mainly by ship. Frederic Bartholdi designed the statue.

Navy Day USA

The US Navy goes all the way back to the Continental Army. One of the first jobs of the US Navy was to defend trade ships from pirates near the Barbar Coast. The Navy also flies jets from the tops of large ships called battleships.

National Mule Day

A mule is the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse. The sound it makes is different than the sounds made by donkeys and horses but the mule sound has characteristics of both animals. They are highly intelligent animals and tend to be quite curious. They are still used today in place of tractors by some farmers to work the fields.

National Mole Day

Mole Day is the day nerdy types celebrate the discovery of Avogado's number which is 6.02 x 10^23 which is a constant that signifies the molecular weight of a given molecule equal to that molecules atomic weight. If we could determine the atomic weight of a Mole, one mole of that mole would be a Mole that weighs the same as the atomic weight of a Mole. 10^23 = 10/23 or October 23.

Ringling Brothers circus buys Barnum and Bailey's Circus

The Ringling Brothers Circus was started when the barnum and Bailey Circus was at it,s peak. When P.T Barnum died The zringling Brothers bought ther barnum and bailey Circus. They ran the two circuses independantly until finally merging the show in 1918. The show was a huge success throughout the 1920's and only saw a decline due to the great depression.