This Day, That Year – January 23

Wham-O toy company produced the first Frisbee disc, originally called the “Pluto”, on this day in 1957.

Did you know that:

• A patent for an envelope-making machine was granted to Jesse K. Park and Cornelius S. Watson on this day in 1849
• Subhas Chandra Bose was an Indian nationalist born on this day in 1897
• The first version of the Java programming language was released on this day in 1996