On This Day in History
Doom is released
1993The video game Doom was released, and was later often called the father of the first-person-shooter genre. (Doom (1993 video game))
Also on this day
- 1884 Huckleberry Finn is first published in the U.K. and Canada — Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was first published in the United Kingdom and Canada, two months earlier than in the United States.
- 1911 Calbraith Perry Rodgers finishes a transcontinental flight — Calbraith Perry Rodgers completed the first transcontinental flight across the United States.
- 1983 Raúl Alfonsín takes office in Argentina — Raúl Alfonsín became the first democratically elected president of Argentina to take office after more than seven years of military dictatorship.