Jul 30 Python 2.3 released, 2003
Nov 30 Python 2.4 released, 2004
Mar 30 Python 2.4.1 released, 2005
+Sep 19 Python 2.5 released, 2006
/* KDE history */
Oct 14 Matthias Ettrich starts the Kool Desktop Environment (KDE), 1996
Jan 28 KDE 3.1 released, 2003
Aug 19 KDE 3.3 released, 2004
Mar 16 KDE 3.4 released, 2005
+Jul 29 KDE 3.4.2 Released, 2005
+Nov 29 KDE 3.5 released, 2005
+Oct 17 KOffice 1.6 released, 2006
+
+/* GNOME and Gtk history */
+Nov 21 GIMP first released, 1995
+Aug 14 GTK+ 2.8 released, 2005
+Sep 7 GNOME 2.12 released, 2005
+Mar 17 GNOME 2.14 released, 2006
+Sep 9 GNOME 2.16 released, 2006
+Mar 14 GNOME 2.18 released, 2007
/* LaTeX dates */
Jan 10 Donald E. Knuth born, 1938
Nov 20 Celeste Amanda Torvalds born, 2000
Jan 2 Linux 2.4 released, 2001
Aug 29 Kernel developer Leonard N. Zubkoff died in helicopter crash, 2002
+Dec 17 Linux 2.6 released, 2003
+
+/* FreeDOS history */
+Sep 3 FreeDOS 1.0 released, 2006
/* Notably Internet dates */
Apr 7 First RFC published, 1969
Apr 30 CERN releases code of libwww, httpd and www freely, 1993
/* IBM history */
+Sep 13 Introduction of the hard disk, 1956
Apr 7 "Big Blue" (IBM) demonstrates the IBM System/360, 1964
Apr 17 "Big Blue" (IBM) releases the IBM System/360, 1966
Aug 12 "Big Blue" (IBM) releases the IBM PC-5150 in New York, 1981
Apr 6 Cray Research founded, 1972
Oct 25 DEC announces VAX-11/780, 1977
Apr 28 Zilog Z80 released, 1978
+Nov 20 Microsoft 1.0 released, 1985
Jan 29 Scientists at Bell Labs demonstrate the first all-optical processor, 1990
+Sep 25 Microsoft founded, 1975
/* Misc computer personalities */
Dec 28 Johann von Neumann born, 1903
Dec 19 Konrad Zuse died, 1995
Aug 6 Edsger Wybe Dijkstra died in Neuren, 2002
Jun 22 Bob Bemer (ESC key, ASCII) died, 2004
+Sep 16 Rob 'lilo' Levin died after accident, 2006
/* Misc other dates */
Apr 3 First mobile telephone call (Motorola - Bell Labs), 1973
May 23 Sun launches Java, 1995
May 1 First two BASIC programs run simultaneously on a GE-225 in
Darthmouth Colleges, 1964
+Dec 23 NetBSD 3.0 released, 2005
+Aug 28 ReactOS 0.3.0 released, 2006
+Nov 1 OpenBSD 4.0 released, 2006
#endif /* !_calendar_infodrom_computer_ */
Jul 4 Hannelore Kohl commits suicide, 2001
Nov 26 Regine Hildebrand died, 2001
Jun 5 Ronald Reagan died, 2004
-Feb 24 Hans Jürgen 'Ben Wisch' Wischnewski, 2005
+Feb 24 Hans Jürgen 'Ben Wisch' Wischnewski died, 2005
/* World War etc. */
Dec 15 Erster Kriegseinsatz von Panzern, Deutsche Westfront, 1916
May 18 Pope Johannes Paul II (Karol Woytya) born, 1920
Apr 26 Atom reactor in Chernobyl, Ukraine, explodes, 1986
Apr 2 Pope Johannes Paul II (Karol Woytya) died, 2005
+Jun 6 Björn Borg born, 1956
#endif /* !_calendar_infodrom_misc_ */
Nov 2 International Space Station ISS resembled, 2000
/* Miscellaneous */
+Mar 14 Alber Einstein born in Ulm, 1879
+Apr 28 Kurt Friedrich Gödel born in Brünn, 1906
+Sep 12 Stanislaw Lem born in Lwów, 1921
Mar 25 First colour TV manufactured, 1954
Apr 25 Bell Labs demonstrate the solar cell, 1954
Oct 18 Texas Instruments demonstrates first transistor radio, 1954
Aug 5 First ship (atomic submarine Nautilus) reaches the North pole, 1958
+Mar 27 Stanislaw Lem died in Krakow, 2006
#endif /* !_calendar_infodrom_science_ */
Apr 20 George Takai (Hikaru Sulu) born in Los Angeles, 1940
Jul 13 Patrick Stewart born in Mirfield, Yorkshire, 1940
Dec 25 Rick Berman born, 1945
+May 30 Michael Piller born in New York, 1948
Mar 2 Gates McFadden (Dr. Beverley Crusher) born in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, 1949
Feb 2 Brent Spiner (Data) born in Houston, 1949
Aug 19 Jonathan Frakes (William Riker) born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1952
May 23 Star Trek Voyager's last ever episode called Endgame is aired, 2001
Sep 26 Star Trek Enterprise's pilot 'Broken Bow' aired on UPN, 2001
Nov 13 Kellie Waymire (Crewmen Cutler) died of cardiac arrhythmia, 2003
-Jul 20 James Dohan (Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott) died, 2005
+Jul 20 James Doohan (Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott) died, 2005
+Nov 1 Michael Piller died, 2005
/* Literature */
Nov 10 Friedrich Schiller born in Marbach, 1759
+Feb 15 Gottwald Ephraim Lessing died, 1781
Apr 1 Hans Christian Andersen born, 1805
May 9 Friedrich Schiller died, 1805
Feb 8 Jules Gabriel Verne born in Nantes, 1828
Sep 26 Robert Palmer died, 2003
Jun 10 Ray Charles died, 2004
Sep 11 Gordon Mattew 'Sting' Summer born, 1951
+Dec 25 James Brown died, 2006
/* TV and Movies */
Dec 24 The first public radio show, 1906
Dec 13 Curd Jürgens born, 1915
May 26 Horst 'Derrik' Tappert born, 1923
Nov 12 Bernhard Victor 'Vicco' Christoph Carl 'Loriot' von Bülow born, 1923
+Apr 2 Hans Rosenthal born, 1925
Apr 12 Hardy Krüger born, 1928
+Sep 14 Hans Clarin born in Wilhelmshaven, 1928
Jun 29 Harald 'Harry Heinz Herbert' Juhnke born, 1929
Sep 8 Mario Adorf born, 1930
+Feb 8 Manfred Krug born, 1937
Aug 12 Iris Berben born, 1950
Jun 18 Curd Jürgens died after heart attack, 1982
+Feb 10 Hans Rosenthal died, 1987
Jul 27 Brigitte Horney died, 1988
Oct 3 Heinz Rühmann died, 1994
Aug 25 Georg Thomalla died, 1999
Jul 10 Inge Meysel died, 2004
Mar 8 Brigitte Mira died, 2005
Apr 1 Harald 'Harry Heinz Herbert' Juhnke died, 2005
+Aug 28 Hans Clarin died, 2005
+Jul 7 Rudi Carrell died in Bremen, 2006
/* International Actors and Actresses */
Jan 18 Oliver Hardy born, 1892
Nov 29 Cary Grant died, 1986
May 8 George Peppard died, 1994
Mar 28 Sir Peter Ustinov died, 2004
+Dec 18 Steven Spielberg born, 1946
/* Miscellaneous */
Aug 31 Princess Diana killed in an accident, 1997