2014 Event Apple and IBM join forces to develop apps for business users; the agreement will give Apple a greater share of the business market, which is increasingly catering to a mobile workforce; IBM will benefit from the software integration on its cloud computing platform 2014 Event Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman announces reduction of at least 45,000 jobs, expanding the original plan for 34,000 cuts; Whitman seeks to refocus and align HP with changing computing habits such as use of cloud services rather than servers 2014 Event A second dwarf planet is discovered between the Oort cloud and the Kuiper belt, an area previously considered a no-man's land; the planet, 2012 VP-113, measures about 280 miles across; the first, Sedna, about 600 miles across, was discovered in 2003 2011 Event The ash cloud from the 2011 Puyehue-Cordon Caulle eruption closes 39 flights in Chile and Argentina 1992 Death Jan Hendrik Oort, Dutch astronomer (Oort Cloud), dies at 92 1987 Event Harrison releases "Cloud 9" and McCartney releases "All the Best" 1983 Birthday William Hung, born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, outsider musician, rose to fame for an off-key performance of 'She Bangs' by Ricky Martin on 'American Idol' show 1979 Event Caryl Churchill's "Cloud Nine," premieres in London 1976 Event Chemical factory in Milan explodes (dioxane cloud) 1974 Event U.S. Mariner 10 returns 1st close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure 1973 Birthday Alexandra Fusai, St. Cloud France, tennis star, 1995 Futures-Szczecin 1968 Birthday Ginger Helgeson Nielson, St. Cloud, Minnesota, tennis star 1967 Event Cloud burst over Lisbon kills about 450 1965 Event Rolling Stones release "Get Off of My Cloud" 1959 Birthday Jim Eisenreich, born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, outfielder, Philadelphia Phillies, Florida Marlins 1951 Event "Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea kills 3-5,000 1948 Death Charles Fillmore, born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, mystic, co-founder, Unity, a New Thought movement church, created metaphysical interpretations of the Bible, promoted idea that God is good, God is available, God is in you, wrote, 'The Twelve Powers of Man', dies 1946 Event 1st artificial snow produced from a natural cloud, Mount Greylock, MA 1934 Birthday David Durenberger, born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, Senator-R-Minnesota 1978 - 1995 1918 Event 43rd Preakness: Johnny Loftus aboard War Cloud wins in 1:53.6 1913 Birthday Gig Young, St. Cloud, Minnesota, actor, They Shoot Horses Don't They 1909 Death Red Cloud, Sioux indian chief, dies 1908 Birthday Bengt Stromgren, Goteborg Sweden, astrophysicist, studied gas cloud 1900 Birthday Jan Hendrik Oort, Dutch astronomer, hypothesized "Oort Cloud" 1893 Birthday Frank Carlson, born in Cloud Country, Kansas, Governor of Kansas 1947 - 1950, Representative and Senator-R-Kansas 1870 Event Washington: President Grant meets with Sioux chief Red Cloud 1869 Birthday Charles Wilson, English physicist, Wilson cloud chamber-Nobel 1868 Event Dr. James Moore (UK) wins 1st recorded bicycle race, (2k) velocipede race at Parc fde St. Cloud, Paris 1854 Birthday Charles Fillmore, born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, mystic, co-founder, Unity, a New Thought movement church, created metaphysical interpretations of the Bible, promoted idea that God is good, God is available, God is in you, wrote, 'The Twelve Powers of Man'
