2013 Event European Bioinformatics Institute scientists have successfully stored audio and text on fragments of DNA, and retrieved them with 99.99% accuracy - the first time in history DNA has been used for data storage 2011 Event China places new controls on text messages sent on mobile phones containing references to democracy, human rights and corruption 2010 Event China begins text message surveillance, blocking customers from the country's two largest operators for lewd messages 1994 Death Ronnie Potsdammer, singer/song/text writer/programmer, dies at 71 1994 Death Phyllis Flowerdew, school Reading text author, dies at 81 1993 Death Willy C of Hemert, director/(text)poet (Small Truth), dies at 81 1982 Event Academic Text Processing Service forms in Seattle 1926 Birthday Rene Goscinny, French song/cartoon text writer, Asterix 1913 Birthday Phyllis Flowerdew, school Reading text author 1887 Event Eduard Douwes Dekker writes his last text (Lf8-c5)
