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Father of the Video Game
William Higinbotham
Born October 25, 1910 d. 1994
American physicist. “Father of the Video Game.” In 1958 he rigged up an oscilloscope for the public to play tennis on at New York’s Brookhaven National Laboratory.
First Photo of Earth from Space
October 24, 1946
Taken from an altitude of 65 miles above Earth from a motion picture camera mounted on a V-2 rocket launched from White Sands Missile Range.