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Microsoft was founded

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Microsoft was Founded

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On this day in 1975, at a time when most Americans use typewriters, childhood friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft, a company that makes computer software. Originally based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Microsoft relocated to Washington State in 1979 and eventually grew into a major multinational technology corporation. In 1987, the year after Microsoft went public, 31-year-old Gates became the world's youngest billionaire.

Gates and Allen started Microsoft-originally called Micro-Soft, for microprocessors and software-in order to produce software for the Altair 8800, an early personal computer. Allen quit his job as a programmer in Boston and Gates left Harvard University, where he was a student, to focus on their new company, which was based in Albuquerque because the city was home to electronics firm MITS, maker of the Altair 8800. By the end of 1978, Microsoft's sales topped more than $1 million and in 1979 the business moved its headquarters to Bellevue, Washington, a suburb of Seattle, where Gates and Allen grew up. The company went on to license its MS-DOS operating system to IBM for its first personal computer, which debuted in 1981. Afterward, other computer companies started licensing MS-DOS, which had no graphical interface and required users to type in commands in order to open a program. In 1983, Allen departed Microsoft after being diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma; he was successfully treated for the disease and went on to pursue a variety of other business ventures.

In 1985, Microsoft released a new operating system, Windows, with a graphical user interface that included drop-down menus, scroll bars and other features. The following year, the company moved its headquarters to Redmond, Washington, and went public at $21 a share, raising $61 million. By the late 1980s, Microsoft had become the world's biggest personal-computer software company, based on sales. In 1995, amidst skyrocketing purchases of personal computers for home and office use, Windows 95 made its debut. It included such innovations as the Start menu (TV commercials for Windows 95 featured the Rolling Stones singing "Start Me Up") and 7 million copies of the new product were sold in the first five weeks. During the second half of the 1990s, Internet usage took off, and Microsoft introduced its web browser, Internet Explorer, in 1995.

In 1998, the U.S. Department of Justice and 20 state attorneys general charged Microsoft with violating antitrust laws by using its dominance to drive competitors out of business; in 2001, the company reached a settlement with the government that imposed restrictions on its corporate practices. Also in 2001, Microsoft joined the video-game market with the launch of its Xbox console, which proved to be a hit. However, in the first decade of the 21st century Microsoft fell behind companies such as Apple in the mobile-phone market and Google in the search-engine market.

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Microsoft founded - Apr 04, 1975 - HISTORY.com

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On this day in 1975, at a time when most Americans use typewriters, childhood friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft, a company that makes computer software. In 1987, the year after Microsoft went public, 31-year-old Gates became the world's youngest billionaire.

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1977, the first Star Wars movie was released

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Star Wars is an American epic space opera[1] media franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the eponymous 1977 film[a] and quickly became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon. The franchise has been expanded into various films and other media, including television series, video games, novels, comic books, theme park attractions, and themed areas, comprising an all-encompassing fictional universe.[b] Star Wars is one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time.

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1978 Jonestown massacre

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(Originally published by the Daily News on Nov. 20, 1978.)

GEORGETOWN GUYANA - Troops searching a jungle religious commune near Port Kaituma for suspects and survivors of the ambush slayings of United States Rep. Leo J. Ryan (D-Calif.) and four other Americans found between 300 and 400 bodies - apparent suicides - at the commune early today, Guyana officials said.

About 1,100 persons, all of them Americans, had been reported living in the camp. Ryan had led a group of Americans to investigate conditions there. He and four other Americans were killed at the Port Kaituma airport when members of the sect opened fire, Guyanese officials said.

The State Department also reported that the Guyanese police had told them: "A woman who ran the People's Temple office in Georgetown has killed three children and taken her own life."

Ryan, who had led an 18-member mission to investigate the cult, had been attacked by a knife wielding man at the sect's headquarters. He escaped, only to be wounded by pistol fire and then killed by shotgun blasts at Port Kaituma airport while leading his delegation and unhappy American cultists toward airplanes.

Teen Americans, including the No. 2 U.S. diplomat in Guyana, Richard Dwyer, were wounded and 10 persons were missing.

The Guyanese troops were searching the jungle for the killers and the missing, including terrified defectors from the cult who survived the airport massacre.

Two lawyers who accompanied Ryan's party as attorneys for the sect's founder, Jim Jones, 48 - Mark Lane and Charles Garry - were first reported safe in Jonestown, the State Department said. Their whereabouts today was not known. Lane has been attorney for James Earl Ray, the killer of Martin Luther King, and for Lee Harvey Oswald's wife. Oswald assassinated President Kennedy.

Government sources identified the suspect in the killings as Larry Jon Leyton, but did not give his age or hometown. The Guyanese government issued a statement saying that the killers and the victims were all Americans.

The 130 soldiers and 40 policemen airlifted from Georgetown to the dirt airstrip 125 miles to the north were reported advancing slowly in the jungles around the Temple in Jonestown, about 8 miles from Port Kaituma.

Guyanan authorities said members of the People's Temple sect, enraged by Ryan's interference, staged the attack. Ryan, 53, arrived in Guyana last Tuesday to investigate reports that the People's Temple was holding some followers in jail at Jonestown.

Javers, who spent the night in hiding awaiting rescue with 12 sect members who sought to escape the village, said: "They told us how Jim Jones had led the entire colony into making a maniacal suicide pact with him."

Tom Fernandez, 34, a Guyanese pilot who escaped the killers by flying out in one of two light planes in Ryan's party - the other craft was crippled by gunfire - said that at the airstrip before the attack:

"The congressman came up to me and said someone had tried to kill him with a knife... He wanted me to search the people going on my plane. I didn't know what was going on and I said, 'I'm not going to search anybody.'"

Fernandez said that 30 to 40 people were standing around the airstrip. He loaded five passengers into his Cessna and started that taxi.

"I saw the tractor trailer (carrying armed cultists) as it passed me, then I heard, 'Pow! Pow! Pow! The black woman next to me said; 'There's shooting.'

"Then there were three shots inside my plane. Then the guy behind me had a pistol and he shot the black woman. She fell over me. I opened the door. There was a desperate struggle to try to take the gun away from the gunman. It had jammed after two or three shots.

"I saw three guys fighting over the gun. The (wounded) woman beside me ran into the bushes. This guy with the gun ran after her. I saw him chase her and heard the shot. I nearly vomited. I saw the men... standing over people with high-powered guns and shooting. I just didn't know what was going on."

The gunfire in the plane apparently was a signal for the gunmen on the ground to join the attack, the witnesses said.

Javers said: "I was waiting between Bob Brown and Don Harris, the two NBC men who were killed.

"The firing erupted from guns close by. I was hit first. I was knocked to the ground by a slug in the left shoulder," I crawled behind the right wheel of the plane.

"Bob Brown stayed on his feet and kept filming what was happening, even as the attackers advanced on him with their guns. He was incredibly tenacious. I saw Brown go down. Then I saw one of the attackers stick a shot right into Brown's face, inches away, if that."

Javers said: "I ran and then I dived head-first into the bush." After the attackers left, Javers returned and found the bodies of Ryan and the other victims. "Pattie Parker, one of the people who had asked us to help her escape from Jonestown, was lying at the foot of the plane's stairs."

He said that a tropical storm had struck soon after he went back into the woods. He said he and some other survivors found sanctuary at a small cafe near the air strip. "The local Guyanese knew they were risking their own safety by letting us stay, but they were extremely kind to us," he said.

Ryan's party had arrived at Jonestown Friday night and got a "lively and cordial welcome," Javers said.

'We were told how happy everyone was," said Javers. "Then a young man slipped Harris a message written on a child's slate, saying, 'Please help me get out of Jonestown.' It had four signatures.' The list grew to about 12, then 20 persons who wanted to leave.

The first government rescue troops arrived at the airstrip at 8:30 a.m. yesterday.

Later, a C-141 Medivac plane flew in from the United States and brought out the wounded.

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Jonestown Massacre takes the lives of hundreds in a mass suicide-murder in 1978 - NY Daily News

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(Originally published by the Daily News on Nov. 20, 1978.) GEORGETOWN GUYANA - Troops searching a jungle religious commune near Port Kaituma for suspects and survivors of the ambush slayings of United States Rep. Leo J. Ryan (D-Calif.) and four other Americans found between 300 and 400 bodies - apparent suicides - at the commune early today, Guyana officials said.

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In 1976, The first Apple Computer was built.

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A prototype Apple 1, a holy-grail item in electronics memorabilia, has been sold for $815,000 (£618,000).

Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built just 200 of the computers in 1976.

The model auctioned this week contains tell-tale signs that it is a prototype, probably made prior to its manufacturing run.

One computer historian says it is "one of the first, if not the first ever" Apple computer.

This "celebration edition" Apple 1 was expected to make $1m, but auctioneer Charitybuzz told the BBC that the final bid was $815,000.

That means it is not the highest-grossing Apple 1 computer - that distinction belongs to a rare working version that sold for $905,000 at a Bonhams auction in New York in October 2014.

A spokeswoman for Charitybuzz said that "about 80 bidders" had been watching the item. She denied reports that there had been a last-minute $1.2m bid, apparently made too late to be accepted.

Ten percent of the proceeds will go to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, based in New York, Charitybuzz said.

The winning bidders, Glenn and Shannon Dellimore, said they want to take the computer into schools and universities to help inspire young people.

Mr Dellimore told the BBC: "It is incredible to think that this was most likely the very first Apple 1, the unicorn or holy grail of computers, the original very first prototype."

'Manually soldered'

No more than 70 Apple 1 computers are believed to still be in existence. The machine - initially named "Apple Computer 1" - first went on sale in July 1976, and was discontinued in October of the following year when the company turned its attention to building the Apple 2.

The "celebration edition" is different from the other Apple 1s because it was manually soldered on to a blank PC board, meaning it was not part of the only two production runs of the device.

Mr Wozniak was quoted by Charitybuzz as saying: "Only a few Apple 1s, on blank (not green) PC boards, may have been manually soldered, although I'm not sure of it.

"We arranged the wave soldering with the company that made the PC boards. But we may not have wanted to wave solder a run (of maybe 10 or more board) until we manually soldered one or two to debug them."

Apple historian Corey Cohen, who assessed the machine, said in a promotional video that the celebration edition is "one of the first, if not the first, Apple computers because this appears to be one of the sample boards".

According to a timestamp on the PC board, it was made in the summer of 1976.

Garlanded history

Jobs, Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne founded Apple on 1 April 1976 in California in the garage of Paul and Clara Jobs.

The trio's first major project was the Apple 1 computer, which was first unveiled at the Homebrew Computer Club - a hobbyist group in Silicon Valley.

To help finance the machine's production, Jobs sold his VW Microbus, while Wozniak sold his HP-65 calculator for $500.

The Apple 1 went on sale in July 1976 at a price of $666.66.

About 175 of the 200 units were sold, while the remaining units were destroyed.

Two weeks after Apple's formation, Mr Wayne sold his 10% stake for $800.

The company's annual revenue last year was $234bn.

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'First Apple computer' sells for $815,000 - BBC News

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A prototype Apple 1, a holy-grail item in electronics memorabilia, has been sold for $815,000 (£618,000). Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built just 200 of the computers in 1976. The model auctioned this week contains tell-tale signs that it is a prototype, probably made prior to its manufacturing run.

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Paul Getty gets kiddnapped

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THE KIDNAPPING: In December 1963, gunmen took 19-year-old Frank Sinatra Jr. from a hotel near Lake Tahoe, where he was performing, and forced him into the trunk of their car.

RANSOM DEMAND: $240,000 (though Sinatra Sr. had already offered $1 million)

THE OUTCOME: Frank Jr. was release within a few days after his father took care of the ransom, which was quickly recovered when the FBI arrested ringleader Barry Keenan and two accomplices. Keenan got the harshest sentence-life plus 75 years. He served less than five, however, because the court later ruled that he had been legally insane when he committed the crime.
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John Paul Getty III - Ransom Notes: 10 Strange Tales of Kidnapping

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THE KIDNAPPING: "Dear Mummy," the note began, "Since Monday I have fallen into the hands of kidnappers." It arrived soon after the 16-year-old grandson of J. Paul Getty was abducted in Rome.RANSOM DEMAND: $17 million, later reduced to $3.2 millionTHE ...

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Vince Lombardi was born June 11, 1913 and died in 1970 with Colon  Cancer

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Matt Damon was born Oct 8, 1970

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Matthew Paige Damon (; born October 8, 1970) is an American actor, film producer, philanthropist and screenwriter. He is ranked among magazine's most bankable stars and is one of the highest-grossing actors of all time.

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Floppy Disk was invented Nov, 19, 1970

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Work on a drive that led to the world's first floppy disk and disk drive began in 1967 at a San Jose (CA) IBM facility, and introduced into the market in an 8-inch format in 1972. The more conveniently sized 5¼-inch disks were introduced in 1976, and became almost universal on dedicated word processing systems and personal computers.

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Disney World Opened 1971

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It's rare that we post a "This Day in History" on the blog but this is something we thought you'd enjoy. On October 1, 1971, the Walt Disney World Resort officially opened, including Magic Kingdom Park, Disney's Contemporary Resort, Disney's Polynesian Resort and Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground. And on that day in 1971, William Windsor, Jr., was our record-breaking first guest.

Are you a Walt Disney World fan? If so, let us know what your "must-do" is when visiting.

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This Day in History: Walt Disney World Resort Officially Opens - 1971

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It's rare that we post a "This Day in History" on the blog but this is something we thought you'd enjoy. On October 1, 1971, the Walt Disney World Resort officially opened, including Magic Kingdom Park, Disney's Contemporary Resort, Disney's Polynesian Resort and Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground.

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M*A*S*H TV show premiers in 1972