Showing posts with label Comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Comics. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Today in Geek History

Hey guys. Happy Tuesday. Today is June 19th and today in Geek History...

1897 Moe Howard, the founding member of the Three Stooges is born in Brooklyn New York.

1907 The inventor of Velcro, George de Mestral, is born today. Do you know how he got the idea for Velcro? I do!

1940 The first comic strip written by a woman called Brenda Starr is published in Chicago Illinois. 

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Today in Geek History

Hello in blog land!

Today is December 28th and today in Geek History...

1922 Stan Lee, comic book creator of The X-Men, Spiderman, Iron Man, and tons more is born in New York New, York. So nice they named it twice!

1932 Nichelle Nicholas, who played Uhura on Star Trek is born in Robbins Illinois. Can anyone tell me the character's full name? Bet ya can't!

1969 Linux kernel engineer Linus Torvalds is born. Basically he invented Linux in the 90s. And you know you're famous if you have an Asteroids game named after you.