1934 – The steam locomotive Flying
Scotsman became the first to officially exceed 100 mph.
1955 – A Colorado Springs youngster
misdialed a telephone number set up for inquiries about Santa and accidentally
called the Combat Operation Center of the Continental Air Defense Command. COC
Commander Col. Harry Shoup told the child “There may be a guy called Santa
Claus at the North Pole, but he’s not the one I worry about coming from that direction.”
1959 – $2.9 Million IBM 7090 Mainframe
Want to see a 2.9 million dollar computer? That was the IBM 7090 – a
transistorized mainframe computer that was designed for scientific research and
tech applications. It replaced the 709 series, which used vacuum tubes. The
first two were delivered – one of the 7090’s would be used for the Mercury and
Gemini space mission.
1999 – British Aerospace and Marconi
Electronic Systems merged to form BAE Systems, Europe’s largest defense
contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world. Marconi had been
founded by Guglielmo Marconi in 1897.
2006 – Microsoft released Windows
Vista for business use. Vista improved on security over Windows XP, but took
criticism for other features, and never rivaled Windows XP in adoption.
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