Today is 29th January’10 and here’s what happened today in tech…

1 - 1886. 1st successful gasoline-driven car patented, Karl Benz, Karlsruhe.
2 - 1896. Emile Grubbe is 1st dr to use radiation treatment for breast cancer.
3 - 1964. Unmanned Apollo 1 Saturn launcher test attains Earth orbit.
4 - 1989. USSR’s Phobos II enters Martian orbit.
5 - 1998. Soyuz TM-27 launches to MIR.
6 – 2005. The first direct commercial flights from the mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines carrier landed in Beijing.