1878
W.H. Preece demonstrates Alexander Graham Bell’s new telephone invention to Queen Victoria at her Osborne House estate on the Isle of Wight. Bell patented the telephone in 1876, and in 1877, Bell had come to England on his honeymoon, demonstrating his device to telegraph engineers and giving lectures as he went. At the conclusion of the demonstration, the Queen, very impressed with the device, orders a phone line installed between Osbourne House and Buckingham Palace.
1914
Henry Ford introduces the assembly line for Model T Ford cars. The method of continuous motion method reduces the time spent assembling a car from twelve and a half hours to ninety-three minutes.
1949
The US Attorney General files a lawsuit against AT&T and Western Electric, alleging violations of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The suit will results in a January 24, 1956 consent decree separating Western Electric from the AT&T’s Bell system.
1969
The Soviet Union launches the fourth and fifth Soyuz space probes.
1970
The International Business Machines (IBM) Data Processing Division (DPD) releases the IBM DATA/360, a new program product that simulates the functions of the IBM 29 keypunch and IBM 59 verifier to enter data from an IBM 2260 display station to an IBM 2311 or 2314 storage device, bypassing punch cards.
1986
The action film Rambo: First Blood, Part II sets a new record for first-day home video sales in the US, selling 435,000 copies. The record was previously held by Ghostbusters.
1997
Corel announces that it has licensed Netscape Communicator in order to integrate it with the Corel Office Professional 8 and Wordperfect Suite 8 office suites.
1998
The Aksam.tr website in Turkey is hacked by “uberh4cker”. View an archived version of the defaced website.
The website of the Berkeley Instructional Technology Program is hacked by “Magica de Bin”. View an archived version of the defaced website.
The website of the Emergent corporation is hacked by “Duncan Silver of L.O.U” (Legions of the Underground). He replaces the site’s homepage with a letter protesting the arrest of Kevin Mittnick, which ends with an apology for an inconvenience the intrusion might have caused. View an archived version of the defaced website.
The West Virginia Library Commission website hacked anonymously.
1999
Electronic Arts (EA) issues a recall for up to 100,000 copies of Tiger Woods 99 PGA TOUR for the PlayStation game console. The recall addresses a short, unauthorized cartoon that can be viewed when the PlayStation disc is used on a Personal Computer (PC).
2000
The US Government announces that restrictions on exporting Cryptography are relaxed (although not removed). This allows many US Companies to stop the long-standing process of having to create separate US and International editions of software.
2003
Intel introduces the 2GHz mobile Celeron processor. Price: US$149 in 1000-unit quantities
Intel introduces the 2.4GHz Pentium 4-M processor for portable computers. Price: US$562 in 1000-unit quantities
Intel introduces the 900MHz and 933MHz Pentium III-M low-power mobile processors.
Intel introduces the 800 and 866 MHz Celeron low-power mobile processors.
2005
The Huygens space probe lands on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. It had been released from the Cassini spacecraft when its orbit around Saturn converged with the path of Titan on December 24, 2004. In the first three photographs received from Huygens on the surface of Titan, scientists saw what resembled drainage channels, a shoreline, flooded regions surrounded by elevated terrain and a plain covered with large boulders, possibly of ice.
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