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797 – Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patented an early form of washing machine for clothes, called the “box mangler.”
1951 – Remington Rand delivered the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
1976 – Apple Inc. is formed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne.
1999 – The “Melissa Virus” infected Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world.
2004 – Google announced a new service to the public. A project that up until then was known by the code name, Caribou. The project’s real name was Gmail, and it quickly became one of the most popular e-mail services around.