On April 30, 1993, four years after publishing a proposal for “an idea of linked information systems,” British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee (above) released the source code for the world’s first web browser and editor. Originally called Mesh, the browser that he dubbed WorldWideWeb became the first royalty-free, easy -to-use means of browsing the emerging information network that developed into the internet as we know it today.
The World Wide Web’s inventor sold it’s original code for $5.4 Million. He will be 66years old June 8th.
Grumpy Cat, was an American internet celebrity cat. She was known for her permanently "grumpy" facial appearance, which was caused by an underbite and feline dwarfism. She came to prominence when a photo of her was posted on September 22, 2012, on social news website called Reddit by Bryan Bundesen, the brother of her owner Tabatha Bundesen.
Grumpy Cat died at home in the arms of her "mommy" Tabatha following complications from a urinary tract infection on May 14, 2019. Her death was announced on May 17, 2019 on social media.(Wikipedia )
This file photo shows Grumpy Cat posing with her owner, Tabatha Bundesen, in New York, on Nov. 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Anthrax-laced letters were sent to Capitol Hill on this day in 2001.
On Oct. 7, 1985, the Italian cruise ship MS Achille Lauro was hijacked by four members of the Palestine Liberation Front off the coast of Egypt in the Mediterranean. The hijackers took the more than 400 passengers and crew members hostage and demanded the release of 50 Palestinians from Israeli prisons.
On this day in 1985, the hijackers surrendered on the condition that they and the hijacking mastermind Abu Abbas be given a plane to escape. However, on Oct. 10, the plane was intercepted by United States military aircraft and forced to land at a NATO base in Sicily, where Mr. Abbas and the hijackers were arrested.
The four Palestinian terrorists who hijacked the cruise ship.
Released hostages of the Achille Lauro liner hijacking are shown being taken ashore.
Palestinian militant Abu Abbas, mastermind of the 1985 Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking was captured in Iraq April 2003. He died in US custody from a heart attack in 2004.
John Winston Ono Lennon (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980)
John Lennon became one of the most influential songwriters in the history of popular music after co-founding The Beatles with Paul McCartney and George Harrison. In 2008, Rolling Stone ranked John Lennon the fifth- greatest singer of all time. In 1987, he was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and twice posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: first in 1988 as a member of the Beatles and again in 1994 as a solo artist.
One of the last photos of John Lennon before he was killed.
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