Today in News History

On June 24, several notable moments in the history of News stand out. In 947, Li Congyi, prince of Later Tang (born 931) passed away. In 1812, War of 1812: Great Britain revokes the restrictions on American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war. In 1868, Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer". In 1901, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Turkish author, poet, and scholar (died 1962) was born. In 1907, James Meade, English economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1995) was born. In 1959, Boris Vian, French author, poet, and playwright (born 1920) passed away. In 1969, IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry. In 1990, Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Indian poet, actor, and politician (born 1898) passed away. In 1994, NASA's Space Station Processing Facility, a new state-of-the-art manufacturing building for the International Space Station, officially opens at Kennedy Space Center. In 1995, Roger Grimsby, American journalist (born 1928) passed away. Together, these milestones provide historical context for today's news news and ongoing narratives.