It was on this date in in 2005 that the first video was uploaded to YouTube. Less than a year later over 65,000 new videos were being uploaded every day. Currently there are 35 hours of video being uploaded every minute, and the site is the third-most visited website on the Internet.
According to Wiki the earliest event listed for this date is “215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene” and the most recent is “2009 – The gamma ray burst GRB 090423 is observed for 10 seconds. The event signals the most distant object of any kind and also the oldest known object in the universe.“
A few other things that occurred on this day include:
1635 – The first public school in the United States opens in Boston.
1789 – George and Martha move into the first Presidential Mansion, the Franklin House in NYC.
1900 – First documented use of the word “hillbillie” in a printed article.
1985 – New Coke released for first time. Classic Coke is re-released less than 3 months later.
Happy birthday wishes go out to Michael Moore, Joyce DeWitt, Valerie Bertinelli, Lee Majors, Shirley Temple Black, and John Oliver.