2014 Event Facebook reports that over 90% of its tech employees are Asian or white, while women make up only 15% of tech employees and 31% of all employees; COO Cheryl Sandberg notes that more women are also needed in leadership roles at the company 1997 Event Carquest Bowl 8: Georgia Tech beats West Virginia, 35-30 1997 Event U.S. telephone tech Richard Bliss, arrested for spying in Russia 1995 Event 62nd Sugar Bowl: Virginia Tech beats Texas 1994 Event 13th NCAA Women Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Louisiana Tech 60-59 1993 Event 12th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: Texas Tech beats OH State 84-82 1991 Event Houston quarterback David Klingler sets NCAA record with 6 touchdown passes in the 2nd quarter as the Cougars clobbered Louisiana Tech 73-3 1983 Event 2nd NCAA Womens Basketball Championship: South California beats LA Tech 69-67 1982 Event 1st NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: LA Tech beats Cheney 76-62 1982 Event Old Dominion ends La Tech's women's basketball rec 54-game win streak 1980 Event Les Henson, Virginia Tech, makes 89' 3" basketball field goal 1975 Event 1st Space Shuttle main engine test at National Space Tech Labs, Miss 1973 Event Alabama sets offensive record (828 yards), beats Virginia Tech 77-6 1966 Birthday Erno Das, lighting tech/gaffer, Spiegels, Lovely Liza 1955 Event Georgia Tech ends Kentucky's 130-game home basketball win streak 1943 Birthday Leo Frankowski, U.S., sci-fi author, High Tech Knight, Flying Warlord 1936 Event 200" telescope lens shipped, Corning Glass Works, New York-Cal Tech 1930 Birthday Robert Buchanan, founder, Center for History of Tech Bath University 1926 Birthday David Young, Lieutenant-General/CEO, Cairn Tech 1916 Event 222 points are scored in a football game between Georgia Tech and Cumberland University of Lebanon, Tennessee 1873 Birthday Eliel Saarinen, Finland, architect, GM Tech Institute, Michigan
