History Blog

December 3

Happy Birthday RIP Howard “Andy” Williams(1927–2012) ; Mary “Jaye P.” Morgan–92 John “Ozzy” Osbourne–75 Del Shores–66 “Julianne Moore”(Julie Smith)–63 Daryl Hannah–63 Brendan Fraser–55 Bruno Campos–50 Anna Chlumsky–43 Brian Bonsall–42 Michael Angarano–36 ; 1910 – First modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show ; 1992 – A test engineer for Sema Group uses a personal computer to send the world’s first text message via the Vodafone network to the phone of a colleague