1762: The first St. Patrick's Day parade was held in New York City. 1834: Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and pioneer automobile manufacturer, was born. 1845: The rubber band was patented by Stephen Perry of London. 1953: Austrian physicist Christian Doppler, of Doppler effect fame, died. 1846: Friedrich Bessel, of Bessel function fame, assumed room temperature. 1853: Austrian physicist Christian Doppler, of Doppler effect fame, died. 1950: Scientists at the University of CA at Berkeley announced a new radioactive element, number 98, which they named "californium" (Cf). 1958: The Vanguard 1, the world's oldest satellite still in orbit, was launched by the U.S. 1967: Snoopy and Charlie Brown of "Peanuts" were on the cover of "LIFE" magazine. 1974: The Arab oil embargo was lifted by OPEC, during which time OPEC members earned more than $100 billion (a nice bit of extra loot for funding terrorism worldwide). 1999: Intel released the Intel® Pentium® III Xeon™ Processor. 1999: America Online completed the acquisition of Netscape Communications Corporation. 2007: Fortran creator John Backus died.