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On 13 October 2016, the Swedish Academy named the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. It was the first time a musician and songwriter…
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On 13 October 1884 in Washington, 26 countries and 41 delegates decided what longitude and time should be counted from. The meridian of the Greenwich Observatory passed 22 votes to…
Read the newsOn October 12, 1988, Steve Jobs introduced the NeXT Computer. We look back at the hardware, NeXTSTEP, the first web browser, id Software's work and the return of NeXT's technologies…
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On 12 October 1971, the Broadway premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar took place at the Mark Hellinger Theatre in New York.
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On October 12, 2011, Dennis Ritchie was found dead in Berkeley Heights. He created the C language and, together with Ken Thompson, took part in creating Unix.
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On October 11, 1975, the first season of the sketch show, then called NBC's Saturday Night, premiered on NBC. The premiere was hosted by George Carlin, with Billy Preston and…
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On October 11, 1950, the US Federal Communications Commission adopted the CBS system as the color television standard. It was mechanical, was not compatible with black-and-white receivers, and lasted until…
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On October 10, 2007, Radiohead posted their seventh album, In Rainbows, without an announcement and without a label, letting listeners set their own price. It was later released on XL…
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On 10 October 1957, a reactor caught fire at the British Windscale site. The fire burned for three days, fallout spread across Europe, and the authorities concealed details. Later studies…
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Forty years ago, on 9 October 1986, Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The Phantom of the Opera premiered at Her Majesty's Theatre in London's West End
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On October 9, 2006, Google announced the acquisition of the video service YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock. The deal closed on November 13, and the service itself was not…
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John Lennon's second solo album, Imagine, came out in the UK on October 8, 1971, while in the US it was issued on September 9. Lennon recorded it with Yoko…
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