Daily History Blog

September 13

Happy Birthday RIP Reta Shaw(1912–1982) Emilie Claudette Chauchoin(“Colbert” 1903–1996) Melvin Tormé (1925–1999) Nell Carter(Hardy 1948–2003) Richard Kiel(1939–2014) “Eileen Fulton”(Margaret McLarty 1933–2025) ; “Barbara Bain”(Millicent Fogel)–94 Winnifred Jacqueline Bisset–81 Peter Cetera–81 Jean Smart–74 Geraldine “Geri” Jewell–69 Dominic Fumusa–56 Fiona Apple Maggart–48 Bennett “Ben” Savage–45 Jason Cook–45 ; 1956 – The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use hard disk storage (versus only memory)