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Highlights for November 12
1859: Jules Leotard Performed First Flying Trapeze Act
At the Cirque Napoleon in Paris, French acrobat Jules Leotard dazzled the audience with the first flying trapeze act. He leapt from a platform, swung out holding a trapeze bar, released the bar to float unsupported through the air for about 15 feet, then reached out to grab another trapeze bar as it swung towards him. Leotard's daring feat revolutionized acrobatics and circus performance, and also had a lasting impact on fashion. He was wearing an outfit of his own design: a body-hugging suit of knitted jersey. The garment is now known as a leotard.
1948 Japanese War Criminals Sentenced
An international war crimes tribunal in Tokyo passes death sentences on seven Japanese military and government officials, including General Hideki Tojo, who served as premier of Japan from 1941 to 1944. Eight days before, the trial ended after thirty months with all twenty-five Japanese defendants being found guilty of breaching the laws and customs of war. In addition to the death sentences imposed on Tojo and others principles, such as Iwane Matsui, who organized the Rape of Nanking, and Heitaro Kimura, who brutalized Allied prisoners of war, sixteen others are sentenced to life imprisonment. The remaining two of the original twenty-five defendants are sentenced to lesser terms in prison. Unlike the Nuremberg trial of German war criminals, where there were four chief prosecutors representing Great Britain, France, the U.S., and the U.S.S.R., the Tokyo trial featured only one chief prosecutor--American Joseph B. Keenan, a former assistant to the U.S. attorney general. However, other nations, especially China, contributed to the proceedings, and Australian judge William Flood Webb presided. In addition to the central Tokyo trial, various tribunals sitting outside of Japan judged some 5,000 Japanese guilty of war crimes, of whom more than 900 were executed.
1990 - Berners-Lee proposes World Wide Web
In 1980, a British computer scientist on fellowship at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. Tim Berners-Lee is having trouble keeping track of all his notes. So he designs a piece of software to access everything on his computer through random links. He calls it Enquire. Then he gets another idea: What if he could easily find stuff on other computers all over the globe. In 1989 he figures out a way to do that. He considers calling his idea "The Information Mine," or possibly, the "Information Mesh".
Today Berners-Lee is far from famous. But his invention has become the hottest thing since the light bulb. He finally decided to call it... The World Wide Web. By 1990, he had created the basic parameters of the World Wide Web. A working version was posted on CERN's internal computers in May 1991. In August 1991, Berners-Lee released Web files and requested input from other developers, and by the beginning of the next year, the Web was widely discussed. In early 1993, when Marc Andreessen and other graduate students at the University of Illinois released the Mosaic browser (Netscape's precursor), the Web rapidly became a popular medium. But I thought Al Gore......
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