1 day Ago By Lee Hilgendorf
2000 – 25 years ago Phillip Katz, the inventor of file-compression software used in computers all around the world, died April 14 in Milwaukee. He developed the concept for the zip file at his mother’s kitchen table in 1986. Boeing Co.
is planning to install systems in airplanes to allow passengers to surf the Internet and check their e-mail from laptops during flights. Boeing hopes to have the system operational by the end of next year.1975 – 50 years ago A Minnesota Senate committee approved restrictions on pay toilets and smoking in public.
The bill’s sponsor, David Schaaf (DFL) attempted to amend the measure to ban all pay toilets, but the effort failed. Olmsted County’s PORT program and its group home for girls will not be affected by a moratorium on community corrections programs announced by the Governor’s Crime Commission. 30 Apr 1975, Wed Post-Bulletin (Rochester, Minnesota) Newspapers.
com 1950 – 75 years ago The first trip of the Chicago and North Western Railway diesel powered daily through trains will be made tomorrow. Named the Dakota “400”, the streamliner will run from Huron, S.D.
, to Chicago, via Rochester. Rep. Karsten (Democrat, Missouri) suggested today that an inquiry be made to determine whether the communism charges of Sen.
McCarthy (Republican, Wisconsin) constitute “a hoax, a deceit, or a fraud” upon the American people.1925 – 100 years ago Fill your gasoline tank tonight and save two cents a gallon. Tomorrow, May 1, a tax of two cents per gallon on gasoline used to propel motor vehicles on public highways will be collected for the state highway fund.
Fireworks are expected tomorrow evening at a meeting of the North Rochester Improvement Association for the purpose of discussing the tourist park proposition on a site on the northeast side of the city. 30 Apr 1925, Thu Post-Bulletin (Rochester, Minnesota) Newspapers.com ]]>.
