Today in Tech History – August 10, 2017

1519 – Ferdinand Magellan set sail to find that pesky trade route that Columbus was looking for, and instead circumnavigated the globe. Well, at least his ship did.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-08-10/news/9808100080_1_serial-killings-james-smithson-new-brunswick

1990 – The Magellan space probe, named after Ferdinand Magellan, reached Venus, beginning its mission to map the planet’s surface.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/magellan.html

2004 – The iTunes Music Store library passed the mark of 1,000,000 songs available.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2004/08/10iTunes-Music-Store-Catalog-Tops-One-Million-Songs.html

2015 – Larry Page and Sergey Brin announced a new company called Alphabet had been created to oversee a slimmed down Google as well as other companies Google owned like Calico, Nest and more. Sundar Pichai was named CEO of the new Google. Alphabet continued to be traded under the stock tickers GOOG and GOOGL.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/08/google-alphabet.html

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