Monday, September 19, 2011

TODAY IN HISTORY

SEPTEMBER 19
1991:German tourists Helmut and Erika Simon discover “Ötzi the Iceman” while hiking in the Alps between Italy and Austria. Ötzi, who stood 5 feet 4 inches and died around age 45, is the oldest frozen, intact, mummified human body ever found. Ötzi lived and died around 3300 B.C.


1934: Bruno Hauptmann is arrested in New York and charged with the “crime of the century” — the infamous kidnapping and murder of Charles and Anne Lindbergh’s baby son, Charles Jr., in 1932. Hauptmann will be convicted and then executed on April 3, 1936.


1982:
Computer science professor Scott E. Fahlman creates the first documented emoticons (emotion + icons), the horizontal “smiley” and “frowny” faces, in a post on a Carnegie Mellon message board. Doesn’t that make you :-)?
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