Today in computer history: October 20th

Below are technology and computer-related events that happened on October 20th of every year during the evolution of computers. October 20th is the 294th day of 2024, which is a leap year. There are 72 days left in the year from this day.

Arthur Scherbius pictureOctober 20, 1878
146 years ago

Arthur Scherbius was born, a German electrical engineer known for inventing the Enigma machine. Died May 13, 1929 (Age: 51).

Antoni Kilinski pictureOctober 20, 1909
115 years ago

Antoni Kilinski was born, who helped develop the computer science curriculum. Died May 6, 1989 (Age: 79).

Jorma Rissanen pictureOctober 20, 1932
92 years ago

Jorma Rissanen was born, an IBM researcher known for inventing the arithmetic coding technique of lossless data compression.

Patrick Volkerding pictureOctober 20, 1966
58 years ago

Patrick Volkerding was born, a software engineer and founder of the Slackware Linux distribution.

LinuxOctober 20, 2004
20 years ago

Ubuntu, the Linux operating system was first released.

AppleOctober 20, 2010
14 years ago

Apple introduced macOS X 10.7, code-named Lion.

AppleOctober 20, 2014
10 years ago

Apple introduced Apple Pay and Force Touch features for its devices.

ComputerOctober 20, 2016
8 years ago

Otto and Budweiser completed the world's first shipment by a self-driving truck.

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