And on this day...


Wait a second! How do I know that the events that I mention here actually happened on the given date? Without a doubt many of the dates that we know are "correct", meaning that someone can verify a particular claim that something specific happened on a particular date by checking somewhere in an archive, or in a dated newspaper. But for numerous other dates it's probably hard to be totally accurate. Did a battle really take place on a particular date 250 years ago? And does it really matter?

Since this column deals mostly with communications technologies, I'm always on the lookout for a date on which a particular technology was first used:

or something like that. And of course the best possibility is to redeem some almost forgotten technology from obscurity: So far I haven't found any candidates for today's date that are both accurate and noteworthy. I'll keep looking.



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