History Blog

December 3

Happy Birthday RIP Howard “Andy” Williams(1927–2012) ; Mary “Jaye P.” Morgan–87 John “Ozzy” Osbourne–70 Del Shores–61 “Julianne Moore”(Julie Smith)–58 Daryl Hannah–58 Brendan Fraser–50 Bruno Campos–45 Anna Chlumsky–38 Brian Bonsall–37 Michael Angarano–31  ; 1910 – 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