It was twenty years ago today that Sir Timothy Berners-Lee invented this world-changing layer (the world wide web) on top of the Internet. Amazing how far it's come and what impact it's had in such a short time.
But that's not all that has happened throughout the ages on March 13.
In 1781 the planet Uranus was discovered by Sir William Herschel.
In 1884 Standard Time was adopted throughout the United States.
In 1925 a law went into effect in Tennessee prohibiting the teaching of evolution.
In 1943 baseball approved an "official" ball (with cork and balata). And on that same day there was a failed assassination attempt on Adolph Hitler during a flight from Smolensk to Rastenburg.
In 1964 38 neighbors ignored the screams of Kitty Genovese, 28, as she was stabbed to death in Queens, New York (I remember this one! The case came to be a symbol of urban apathy and fear).
And in 44 BC, a small group of Rome's elite were sitting down over some wine and plotting the assassination of Julius Caesar.
Beware the Ides of March.
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About Me
- Mark Gorman
- I was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, along the banks of the Susquehanna River, in the valley made up by Bald Eagle Mountain to the south, and gentle hills and valleys to the north. That place that sheltered me, gave me food and friends, and both physical and spiritual nourishment for 18 years. That is the space where I was physically and emotionally formed. Ever since growing up there . . . because of growing up there . . . I have been inexorably linked to nature . . . to the earth and to all life.