CONTINUING IN THE WORD
Perspectives on Homeschooling and Classical Christian Education from Scholars Online
Category: History
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October 29: Arpanet
On October 29, 1969, around 10:30pm PST, Charley Kline, a student at UCLA using the SDS host computer in Boelter Hall, logged into the SDS 940 computer at the Stanford Research Center 350 miles away in the first successful ARPANET computer-to-computer transmission using a wide-area packet-switched network. Within a month, the UCLA-Stanford computers were permanently…
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October 28: The Statue of Liberty
On this day in 1886, President Grover Cleveland dedicated a statue in New York City. It was no simple ceremony. There was a parade from Madison Square down Fifth Avenue and Broadway to the Battery. Traders at the New York Stock exchange threw ticker tape out the windows as the parade passed, beginning the tradition…
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October 27: Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau
We often take note of major discoveries, like the discovery of Penicillin in 1928 by Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming, but we don’t always recognize the effort it takes to make the results of these medical advances widely available. Margaret Hutchinson was born on October 27, 1910. She received her degree in science at Rice in…