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On October 1, 1968, George Romero's 'Night of the Living Dead' was shown for the first time in Pittsburgh. Ghouls instead of voodoo zombies, black-and-white film, and a lost copyright…
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On 1 October 1982, sales of the first compact discs, created by Philips and Sony, began in Japan. The digital format gave rise to CD-ROM and changed the music market.
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On September 30, 1935, Gershwin's folk opera "Porgy and Bess" was staged for the first time in Boston. The libretto was written by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin, and the…
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On September 30, 1980, DEC, Intel and Xerox released the first Ethernet specification. Robert Metcalfe's technology from Xerox PARC became the foundation of wired networks.
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On September 29, 1954, the Pantages Theatre hosted the premiere of George Cukor's musical drama A Star Is Born, starring Judy Garland and James Mason. It is the second of…
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On 29 September 1954, the convention establishing CERN entered into force. The document was opened for signature in Paris in 1953, and the idea of a common European laboratory had…
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On September 28, 2020, miHoYo released Genshin Impact, a free-to-play open-world role-playing game with gacha mechanics. It launched on Windows, Android, iOS, and PlayStation 4, and it is still being…
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On September 28, 1928, Alexander Fleming noticed in his laboratory a dish where staphylococcus did not grow around the mold. Thus penicillin, the first antibiotic, was discovered.
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On September 27, 1954, NBC aired the first nationwide broadcast of Tonight Starring Steve Allen. That program launched The Tonight Show, which is still on the air today.
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Richard Stallman sent out an announcement about the development of GNU, a free operating system compatible with Unix. The project grew into the free software movement.
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"Abbey Road" came out on 26 September 1969: The Beatles' eleventh studio album and the last the group recorded with all four members, with a medley on side two and…
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In the night of September 26, 1983, the Soviet Oko system reported the launch of American missiles. The duty officer, Stanislav Petrov, did not pass the signal up the chain…
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