Daily Run Down 04/17/2011

Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

Current News:

• 56% of a user’s first Wikipedia edit good.
• There is more evidence of a link between Diabetes and Parkinson’s.
• A new Security Proposal could eliminate passwords.
• The Federal Trade Commission has sued a fake news site that is selling selling diet products.
• President Obama is stating that the White House technology is woefully out of date.
• Windows Phone 7-certified micro SD cards arrive at AT&T stores.
• Some Marengo High School Students have built a life-sized Trojan Horse.
• William N. Lipscomb Jr, a Nobel Prize Winning Chemist has died at the age of 91.
• The Inability to detect sarcasm may point to dementia.
• Google Video will shutdown on May 13th.

Historical News

• In 485, Greek Philospher Procius Lycaeus dies.
• In 1080, Harald III, King of Denmark, dies.
• In 1397, Geoffrey Chaucer tells his Canterbury Tales for the first time.
• In 1492, Christopher Columbus signs the Capitulations of Santa Fe.
• In 1521, Martin Luther speaks to an assembly, refusing to recant his teachings.
• In 1524, Giovanni da Verrazzano reaches New York Harbor.
• In 1741, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase is born.
• In 1820, Alexander Cartright, the creator of modern Baseball, is born.
• In 1837, American Financier J.P. Morgan was born.
• In 1882, George Jennings, the creator of Public Toilets, dies.
• In 1905, the Supreme Court decides the Lochner v. New York case, stating that ‘right to free contract’ is implicit in due process.
• In 1942, Henri Giraud escapes Festung Konigstein.
• In 1949, 26 Irish Counties officially leave the British Commonwealth, becoming the Republic of Ireland.
• In 1969, Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
• In 1970, Apollo 13 returns safely to Earth.
• In 1976, Henrik Dam, Danish Biochemist and finder of vitamin K, dies.
• In 1990, Civli rights leader Ralph Abernathy dies.
• In 2003, Sir Paul Getty, philanthropist, dies.
• In 2003, Robert Atkins, nutritionist, dies.

Look for more stories tomorrow. If an important story has been missed please leave it in the comments.