1st April
1976 Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs found Apple Computer in the garage of Jobs’ parent’s house in Cupertino, California.
1621 Guru Teg Bahadur Ji, ninth Nanak, 9th of 10 Guru of the Sikhs, born in Amritsar, India.
2nd April
1987 IBM introduces PS/2 & OS/2
1933 K. S Ranjitsinhji, cricketer (989 Test runs, 1st-class avg 56), dies
3rd April
1966 First Indian-made computer commissioned in Jadavpur University campus.
1968 “Planet of the Apes” United States wide premiere
1680 Shivaji Bhonsle [Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj], Indian warrior and founder of the Maratha Empire, dies of fever and dysentery around the age of 52.
4th April
1973 World Trade Center, then the world’s tallest building, opens in New York (110 stories)
1975 Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800
5th April
1956 Ceylon’s Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP), led by S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike wins the general elections in a landslide.
1984 Rakesh Sharma, Squadron leader, becomes India’s first spaceman when he is launched aboard Soyuz T-11 of Soviet Union.
2007 Leela Majumdar, Bengali writer (b. 1908) died.
6th April
1917 US declares war on Germany, enters World War I
1843 William Wordsworth is appointed British Poet Laureate by Queen Victoria
7th April
1969 The Internet’s symbolic birth date: a publication of RFC 1
1906 Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
