2014 Event The Brazilian government is auctioning part of the nation's television bandwidth spectrum to mobile phone companies, providing much-needed capacity to meet wireless demand 2000 Event 19th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at Corel State Spectrum 1940 Birthday Clive Sinclair, British computer inventor, ZX Spectrum 1891 Event William Huggins describes astronomical application of spectrum 1871 Event Jules Janssen discovers dark lines in solar corona spectrum 1868 Event Pierre Janssan discovers helium in solar spectrum during eclipse 1864 Event Spectrum of a comet observed for 1st time, by Giovanni Donati 1787 Birthday Joseph von Fraunhofer, born in Germany, physicist, studied Sun's spectrum
