Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest female figure skating world champion
The American athlete won the 1997 World Figure Skating Championships in Lausanne, Switzerland at the age of 14 years and 10 months.
The Intel Corporation produces the first Pentium microprocessor
Intel holds about 80% of the world market share in the PC microprocessor business.
The Beatles release their first album
Please Please Me, which included the hit single “Love Me Do” is regarded as one of the greatest albums of all time.
The laser is patented
Charles Hard Townes and Arthur Leonard Schawlow received the first patent for their device, although Gordon Gould had previously filed a patent application for a similar contraption, which was turned down.
- 1976 Reese Witherspoon
American actress, producer - 1948 Andrew Lloyd Webber
English director, composer - 1936 Ron Carey
American union leader - 1930 Stephen Sondheim
American composer, songwriter - 1923 Marcel Marceau
French mime, actor
- 2009 Abismo Negro
Mexican wrestler - 2009 Jade Goody
English nurse, author - 2001 William Hanna
American animator, director, producer, actor, co-founded Hanna-Barbera - 1832 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, scientist - 1820 Stephen Decatur
American navy officer
