History Blog

December 3

Happy Birthday RIP Howard “Andy” Williams(1927–2012) ; Mary “Jaye P.” Morgan–90 John “Ozzy” Osbourne–73 Del Shores–64 “Julianne Moore”(Julie Smith)–61 Daryl Hannah–61 Brendan Fraser–53 Bruno Campos–48 Anna Chlumsky–41 Brian Bonsall–40 Michael Angarano–34 ; 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