September 13
Today is National Chocolate Day.
Like I need a reason to eat chocolate.
1501 – Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.
1848 – Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage
2001 – Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.
1848 – Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage
survives an iron rod 1 1⁄4 inches (3.2 cm) in diameter being driven through his brain; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate thinking about the nature of the brain and its functions.
1956 – The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.
1985 – Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games.
1987 – Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.<--Interesting read.
2001 – Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.