1858
George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
1960
Japan begins transmitting regular color television programming using the NTSC system. It’s the third country to adopt the system after Cuba and the United States.
1984
Alec Jeffreys discovers Genetic fingerprinting accidentally while studying genetic markers across generations as a method of tracking patterns of inherited illness in families.
1988
Home Vision Entertainment releases the documentary Comic Book Confidential, directed by Ron Mann and starring Robert Crumb, Will Eisner, William M. Gaines, Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and Frank Miller. The Canadian documentary film surveys the history of comic books in the US from the thirties through the eighties and features interviews with some of the foremost names in the industry. The film will receive the prestigious 1989 Genie Award for Best Documentary. It is also one of the first films to ever be released in CD-ROM format for home computer viewing. Visit the film’s official website.
1990
The first Internet search engine Archie is launched. Archie is an index of FTP archives created by by Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan, and Mike Parker at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
1991
The Gopher protocol, a distributed document search and retrieval network protocol designed for the Internet, is announced by Paul Lindner and Mark P. McCahill of the University of Minnesota.
1994
The animated comedy series The Tick premieres on the FOX network. The series parodies the superhero genre, following a group of absurd superheroes who defend a city, simply called “The City.” It is based on a 1988 comic book series created by Ben Edlund. The series will run for three seasons and thirty-six episodes, the last of which will air November 30, 1996. TV.com entry
1995
The Autumn European Computer Trade Show (ECTS) is held September 10 – 12 at the Olympia in London, England.
1996
The Board of Directors of the Boston Computer Society (BCS) unanimously votes to halt operations of the not-for-profit operation. The group, with offices in Cambridge and Waltham, Massachusetts, is near to celebrating twenty years of bringing together computer owners to share their combined knowledge base. BCS, founded in 1977 by thirteen year old Jonathan Rotenberg, is thought to be the world’s oldest and largest computer organization. In 1989, the group reached a peak of thirty-one thousand members.
1999
America Online, Inc. (AOL) states that William Raduchel, chief strategy officer of Sun Microsystems, Inc. will be taking over the position of chief technology officer for AOL. The position was held for a short time by Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape.
Artisan Entertainment releases the horror film Stir of Echoes, directed by David Koepp and starring Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Erbe, Zachary David Cope, Illeana Douglas, Jennifer Morrison, and Til Schweiger, to 1,888 US theaters. It is based on the novel of the same name by Richard Matheson. The film is released a month after the similarly-themed The Sixth Sense, and it is poorly received for the comparison with the critically-acclaimed film by both audiences and critics. Produced on a budget of US$13 million, the film will gross US$5,811,664 domestically in its opening weekend. IMDB listing (MPAA Rating: R) Running Time: 1 hrs 39 min
Sega of America reports earnings of US$97,904,618.09 within the first twenty-four hours of launching Dreamcast in the United States. According to Sega, the “phenomenal” results through fifteen thousand retail stores in North America has compelled them to revise original Dreamcast sales forecasts of 1.5 million by Friday, March 31, 2000.
The United States Department of Justice files court papers stating that the testimony of Microsoft’s Chairman, William Gates, in the company’s antitrust trial was “bizarre” and “not credible.”
2002
Apple Computer announces that computers shipping in January will boot to Mac OS X only.
EA Games releases the first person shooter Battlefield 1942 for personal computers in North America. Visit the game’s official website. ESRB: T (Teen)
Version 8.4 of the Tcl/Tk programming language.
2003
Adobe Systems releases the Dreamweaver MX 2004 HTML editor. It is the seventh version of the application. Visit the application’s official website.
The Star Trek: Enterprise episode “The Xindi” first airs. (No. 301) In it, the mission against the Xindi starts off with Archer and Malcolm making a visit to a mining facility in order to track down a Xindi. Memory Alpha entry
2004
Screen Gems releases the horror film Resident Evil: Apocalypse, directed by Alexander Witt and starring Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr, Mike Epps, Sandrine Holt, Thomas Kretschmann, Jared Harris, and Iain Glen, to 3,284 US theaters. The film is based on the Resident Evil video game series. Produced on a budget of US$43 million, the film will gross US$23,036,273 in its opening weekend. IMDB listing (MPAA Rating: R) Running Time: 1 hrs 34 min
2006
According to Twin Galaxies, Gary Whelan scores a record-setting 1,114,550 points playing the Namco arcade game Galaxian at Apollo Amusements in Pompano Beach, Florida. Visit the official Twin Galaxies website.
2008
CERN successfully circulates a proton beam through the main ring of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), sometimes described as the largest scientific experiment in history, for the first time in Geneva, Switzerland. Visit the official Large Hadron Collider website.
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