- On 17 October, after midnight, the physician leaned over him and asked whether he was suffering greatly. “No longer”, he replied. He died a few minutes before 2 a.m. He was 39.
- Super Nintendo Entertainment System (allthetropes.org)
The NES had a long run, and was still quite popular years after it launched. Yet competition wouldn’t stay away forever (and Nintendo’s attempts at a monopoly in the United States had been legally struck down), and the Sega Genesis was catching up in the United States, while the TurboGrafx-16 was gaining ground in Japan.
- Oscar Wilde (Wikipedia)
Oscar Fingal O’Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his criminal conviction for gross indecency for homosexual acts.
