Amaya Toman In today's installment of our regular Return to the Past, we will once again look into space in our own way. Today is the anniversary of the famous flight of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. In the second part of today's article, we will return to the second half of the seventies of the last century to remember Ronald Wayne's departure from Apple.
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Gagarin Goes into Space (1961)
The then twenty-seven-year-old Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to fly into space. Gagrina launched Vostok 1 into orbit, which launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Gagarin circled the planet Earth in it in 108 minutes. Thanks to his first place, Gagarin became a literal celebrity, but it was also his last space flight - six years later, he only figured as a potential replacement for Vladimir Komarov. A few years after his trip to space, Gagarin decided to return to classical flying, but in March 1968 he died during one of the training flights.
Ronald Wayne Leaves Apple (1976)
Just a few days after its founding, one of its three founders - Ronald Wayne - decided to leave Apple. When Wayne left the company, he sold his share for eight hundred dollars. During his short tenure at Apple, Wayne managed, for example, to design its first-ever logo - a drawing of Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree, write the company's official partnership agreement, and also write the user manual for the first computer that officially came out of the company's workshop - the Apple I. The reason for his departure from Apple was, among other things, his disagreement with some parts of the partnership agreement and fear of failure, which he already had experience from his previous experience. Ronald Wayne himself later commented on his departure from Apple by saying: "Either I would go bankrupt, or I would be the richest man in the cemetery".
Other events not only in the field of technology
- In Prague, the construction of a new section of the metro line A from Dejvická station to Motol station was started (2010)
