The following happened today:
1719 Robinson Crusoe takes on “flesh and bones” from the pen of the English writer Daniel Defoe.
1744 Anders Kelsius, Swedish astronomer, inventor of the temperature measurement scale of the same name, dies.
1850 Paul Julius von Reuter, founder of the Reuters news agency, uses 40 pigeons to convey to his clients the closing prices of the Stock Exchange.
1859 Work begins on the opening of the Suez Canal.
1874 Guglielmo Marconi, Italian engineer, inventor of wireless radio transmission, dies. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1909.
1940 Actor Al Pacino is born.
1947 Johan Cruyff, Dutch football player, is born.
1953 Scientists Francis Crick and James Watson publish their groundbreaking work on the chemical structure of DNA. For their discovery, which was characterized as the greatest of the 20th century, they will be honored with the Nobel Prize in 1962.
1994 Georgios Gennimatas, Greek MP and minister, one of the founding members of PASOK and initiator of the National Health System (NHS), dies.
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