Today in History - November 19, 1969 - The Apollo 12 becomes the second successful manned lunar landing with astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean. The Apollo 12 mission almost failed at launch due to a leaking hydrogen tank; fortunately launch crew managed to change it before takeoff. The failure of the television camera was [...]

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Today in History - “ November 18, 1963 - “Bell Telephone introduces push button telephone, eventually to replace the rotary dial telephone that had dominated the market since its invention in 1891 when Almon Strowger patented the twin inventions of the automatic telephone exchange and the pulse-driven telephone in the home. Although early prototypes [...]

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Today in History - November 17, 1970 - Invention of the computer mouse. In 1970, a U.S. patent was issued for the computer mouse - an “X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System” (No. 3541541). Doug Engelbart’s invention changed the way humans were to work with computers. The invention transformed computers from specialized tools for [...]

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Today in History - November 16, 1965 - Walt Disney launches the EPCOT Center: Prototype Community of Tomorrow. As Walt Disney originally envisioned it, the EPCOT Center (which stood for “Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow”) would be the key component of Walt Disney World - a working “city of the future” with residential, shopping and [...]

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Today in History - November 15, 1968 - Yale announces its plans to open its undergraduate programs to female students beginning in 1969. Today, women make up over 50% of Yale’s undergraduate population and there is talk in many private schools and liberal arts colleges - where there is a 60-40% split in favor of [...]

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