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3: 1875: Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant, Thomas A. Watson, transmit first speech sounds electronically. |
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11: 1915: Birth date of Nicholas Metropolis, a computer pioneer who developed the early Maniac I computer at Los Alamos National Laboratory, in New Mexico. |
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14: 1951: UNIVAC I, the world’s first commercial computer, begins operation. |
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18: 1964: AT&T starts up TPC-1, the first transpacific submarine telephone cable, running from Hawaii to Japan. |
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19: 1623: Birth date of Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and philosopher. |
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21: 1948: The Manchester Mark I prototype becomes the first stored-program computer to execute a program successfully. |
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| 22–28: IEEE Board Series, Montreal. |
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| 26: IEEE Honors Ceremony, Montreal. |
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5: 1888: Birth date of Herbert Spencer Gasser, corecipient of the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded for discovering how nerve cells function. |
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8: 1937: England begins its 999 emergency telephone system for police, fire, and medical services. |
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10: 1856: Birth date of electricity pioneer Nikola Tesla. |
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| 19: 1975: The Apollo 18 and Soyuz 19 space capsules separate after docking in orbit for two days during the first joint manned spaceflight of the United States and the Soviet Union. |
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25: 1857: Birth date of Frank Julian Sprague, developer of the first commercially successful electric streetcar system, an IEEE Milestone. |
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26: 1989: Robert Tappan Morris Jr. is the first person to be indicted by the U.S. government on charges of purposely releasing a computer virus. |
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| 28: 1983: NASA launches Telstar 3A, the first in AT&T’s Telstar 3 series of domestic communications satellites. |
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4–8: IEEE Region 8 Student Branch and GOLD Congress, Leuven, Belgium. |
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| 5: IEEE president-elect candidates debate at Region 8 Student Branch and GOLD Congress, in Leuven, Belgium. |
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| 6: 1926: Don Juan, the first commercial movie with a soundtrack, though no spoken dialogue, debuts in New York City. |
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| 12: 1960: NASA launches the first telecommunications satellite of its own, Echo 1. |
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13–15: IEEE Region 1 meeting, Binghamton, N.Y. |
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| 14: 2003: A large power outage affects major North American cities, including Cleveland, Detroit, New York, and Toronto. |
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| Historical events provided by the IEEE History Center. IEEE events indicated in RED. |
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