http://www.midley.co.uk/articles/14march1839.htm
1879 – Albert Einstein was born in Ulm in Württemberg, Germany. He would grow up to work in the Swiss patent office. And reinvent physics.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1921/einstein-bio.html
1994 – Linus Torvalds posted to comp.os.linux.announce that Linux kernel release 1.0. had arrived.
http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~perry/education/382v-s08/papers/moon.pdf
2006 – Amazon announced its S3 storage service, designed to provide Web developers with cheap fast storage for their online services. Amazon charged $0.15 per gigabyte of storage per month and $0.20 per gigabyte of data transferred.
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=830816
2013 – Samsung announced the Samsung Galaxy S IV phone would come out in April. Their broadway-influenced presentation received much criticism.
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