Today is debatably the 41st birthday of the Internet. On October 29, 1969, researchers developing the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) sent a message from a computer on the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus to a computer on the Stanford campus. The ARPANET eventually grew and evolved into today's Internet.
Eighty-one years ago, the U.S. Stock Market endured "Black Tuesday" (October 29, 1929), during which a then record 16 million shares were traded, as share prices on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) collapsed.
A mere 12 years ago, John Glenn became the oldest man ever in space when he traveled on the Space Shuttle Discovery.
The last Friday in October is Frankenstein Friday, to celebrate he birth of Frankenstein and its creator, Mary Shelley.
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