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)–93 “Eileen Fulton”(Margaret McLarty)–91 Winnifred Jacqueline Bisset–80 Peter Cetera–80 Jean Smart–73 Geraldine “Geri” Jewell–68 Dominic Fumusa–55 Fiona Apple Maggart–47 Bennett “Ben” Savage–44 Jason Cook–44 ; 1956 – The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use hard disk storage (versus only memory)