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) ; “Barbara Bain”(Millicent Fogel)–92 “Eileen Fulton”(Margaret McLarty)–90 Winnifred Jacqueline Bisset–79 Peter Cetera–79 Jean Smart–72 Geraldine “Geri” Jewell–67 Dominic Fumusa–54 Fiona Apple Maggart–46 Bennett “Ben” Savage–43 Jason Cook–43 ; 1956 – The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use hard disk storage (versus only memory)