1958 – The United States successfully
entered the space age with the successful launch of the Explorer I satellite.
Data from the satellite confirmed the existence of the Van Allen radiation belt
circling the Earth.
1961 – The US launched a four-year-old male
chimpanzee named Ham on a Mercury-Redstone 2 rocket into suborbital flight to
test the capabilities of the Mercury capsule.
1971 – Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart
Roosa and Edgar Mitchell lifted off on the Apollo 14 mission to the Fra Mauro
Highlands on the Moon.
1984 – Apple Reorganizes
Apple
announced they would split up the Cupertino based company into three divisions
– Apple II (handling all Apple III computers as well), the Apple 32 division
(Lisa, and new Macintosh line of computers) and Accessory Products (Printers,
Keyboards, etc).
Delbert Yocam led the Apple II group which Steve Jobs would
take care of Apple 32. Michael Mullar would lead the accessories.
Apple did a lot of reorganizing, including Michael Spindler
to VP of the European group and William Campbell to VP of sales in the US.
1995 – AT&T and VLSI
Protect Against Eavesdropping
AT&T
Bell Laboratories and VLSI Technology announce plans to develop strategies for
protecting communications devices from eavesdroppers. The goal would be to
prevent problems such as insecure cellular phone lines and Internet
transmission by including security chips in devices.
2013 – The Consumer Electronics Association
announced it was awarding the Dish Hopper co-winter of Best of CES and would
begin searching for a new awards partner.CBC had forced CNET editors not to
award Dish a prize due to ongoing litigation between the two companies.
2015 – Troy Bradley of the US and Russian
Leonid Tiukhtyaev landed the Two Eagles Balloon off the Baja coast near La Poza
Grande, Mexico. They beat the world distance and duration record. They stayed
aloft for 6 days, 16 hours and 37 minutes travelling 6,646 miles.
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