Happy Spreadsheet Day! Be they a pivot table pro or an entry-level novice, spreadsheet users worldwide have one person to thank: Dan Bricklin released the first electronic spreadsheet program on this day in 1979. The day celebrates the sophisticated grids that have reshaped businesses from accounting and engineering to project management. But data handling did not begin in the digital age. Ancient civilizations had their own ways of recording and tracking the world around them, as seen in our homepage image.
Spreadsheet Day
Today in History
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Kelimutu, Flores, Indonesia
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Sandstone formations in the badlands near Caineville, Utah
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Tigh Mor Trossachs on Loch Achray, Scotland
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Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain
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Dark skies over New Mexico
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Long-eared owl in the Czech Republic
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World Population Day
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Swim city
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Okefenokee Swamp
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Vermilion Cliffs National Monument
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Go Fly a Kite Day
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Arrr, it be Talk Like a Pirate Day
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Surfer s paradise
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World Lion Day
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Penguin Awareness Day
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Ready, set, read
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Corona Arch near Moab, Utah
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Manatee Awareness Month
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Maritime forest on Cumberland Island, Georgia
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National Hummingbird Day
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Talk like a pirate—or walk the plank
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World Environment Day
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Arches National Park, Utah
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New Year s Day
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Illuminations on the Gulf of Poets
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Mekong River Delta, Long An, Vietnam
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World Giraffe Day
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Arbor Day
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Kings Mountain, Chugach Mountains, Alaska
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International Day of Human Space Flight
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