1857 – 17 nations (including the US) signed the ‘Convention du Metre’ in Paris, France, establishing the International Bureau of Weights and Measures.
1891 – The first public demonstration of a prototype Kinetoscope was given at Edison’s laboratory, for approximately members of the National Federation of Woman’s Clubs. The New York Sun reported on the demonstration.
1927 – First Solo Flight Across the Atlantic
Aboard the “Spirit of St. Louis” monoplane, Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in New York on his historic first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. He will arrive in France 33.5 hours later.
1932 – First Female to Fly Solo Across Atlantic
Five years to the day after Charles Lindbergh took off on his historic first solo flight across the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland. While her original destination was France, Weather and mechanical problems force her to land in Ireland nearly 15 hours after she took off. She becomes the first woman and second person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
1958 – Robert Baumann obtained a patent for a satellite. (US. No. 2,835,548). The patent stipulated the government could use the technology without having to pay royalties.
1990 – The Hubble Space Telescope sent its first light image back to Earth, taken with the wide field/planetary camera.
1995 – Microsoft and Intuit Abandon Merger
Microsoft Corp. and Intuit Inc. agreed to terminate their planned merger in order to avoid a Justice Department charge of violating antitrust Laws. In the intervening three years, Microsoft continued to struggle against federal investigation of its dominance in the personal computer software market. Bill Gates’ company had originally agreed to acquire Intuit in October 1994 in a deal worth roughly $2 billion but abandoned the plan after the Justice Department began an investigation of whether the move would give Microsoft too much dominance in the personal finance software market.
2013 – Yahoo Acquire Tumblr
In a $1.1 billion deal, Yahoo acquired the blogging site Tumblr. This caused many concerns for those using the service – especially those who curate blogs with pornographic content. However, Yahoo insisted they will be running Tumblr as a separate company and will not interrupt any account unless it breaks laws (such as child Pornography). Yahoo did de-list a lot of those blogs in their search a couple months later to give others a clean-search experience.
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