Today is 23rd June, 09 and here’s what happened today in tech…

1 – In 1860 The United States Congress established the Government Printing Office.

2 - In 1868 Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he named as  ”Type-Writer.”

3 - In 1938 the Civil Aeronautics Act was signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States to centralize commercial and safety regulation of civil air travel.

4 – In 1959 The German born scientist Klaus Fuchs, who had helped develop the U.S. atomic program and then subsequently turned into a Soviet spy, was released from a British prison after serving for 9 years and 4 months.

5 - In 1974 the 1st extraterrestrial message sent from Earth was sent into the space.

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