1905 – Cornelius Ehret of Rosemont, Pennsylvania received a patent for the “Art of Transmitting Intelligence.” It was the forerunner of the modern fax.
http://www.google.com/patents?id=gUdlAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false/
1935 – Robert Goddard launched the first rocket equipped with gyroscopic controls near Roswell, New Mexico. The rocket reached an altitude of 4,800 feet and flew 13,000 feet at a speed of 550 mph.
http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/thismonth/this_month_march10.html
1979- A combination of equipment malfunction and human error caused a partial reactor meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania. While no injuries or deaths have been attributed to the accident, it changed US nuclear attitudes significantly.
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/3mile-isle.html/
2016 – The first Oculus Rift VR headsets for consumers began being delivered. Co-founder Palmer Luckey hand-delivered the first one the weekend before to Ross Martin in Alaska who had been the first to pre-order.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/28/11317024/oculus-rift-first-delivered-palmer-luckey/
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1850 – San José was incorporated as one of the first cities in California and was the site of the first state capital. It would lose the capital to Vallejo in 1852 but eventually become the center of Silicon Valley and the de facto capital of the technology world. 
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