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fix PR#3278, add some other dates taken from historical sources available on the web

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01/01 AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies, 1984
01/01 The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT, 1970)
01/03 Apple Computer founded, 1977
01/01 ARPANET converts from NCP to TCP/IP - the Internet is born, 1983
01/01 AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies, 1984
01/03 Apple Computer incorporated, 1977
01/08 American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case, 1982
01/08 Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer, 1889
01/08 Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982
01/10 First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960
01/16 Set uid bit patent issued, to Dennis Ritchie, 1979
01/17 Justice Dept. begins IBM anti-trust suit, 1969 (drops it, 01/08/82)
01/24 DG Nova introduced, 1969
01/17 Justice Dept. begins IBM anti-trust suit, 1969 (drops it, 01/08/1982)
01/22 Apple airs "1984" commercial during Superbowl XVIII, 1984
01/24 Data General Nova introduced, 1969
01/25 First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958
01/26 EDVAC demonstrated, 1952
01/31 Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939
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02/14 First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978
02/15 ENIAC demonstrated, 1946
03/01 First NPL (later PL/I) report published, 1964
03/04 First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos
03/04 First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos, 1976
03/09 "GOTO considered harmful" (E.J. Dikstra) published in CACM, 1968
03/14 LISP introduced, 1960
03/28 DEC announces PDP-11, 1970
03/31 Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946
04/01 Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974 (It figures.)
04/01 Apple Computer founded, 1976
04/03 IBM 701 introduced, 1953
04/04 Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores)
04/07 IBM announces System/360, 1964
04/09 ENIAC Project begun, 1943
04/28 Zilog Z-80 introduced
04/20 Apple announces the Apple ][ at the 1st West Coast Computer Faire, 1977
04/28 Zilog Z-80 introduced, 1974
05/06 EDSAC demonstrated, 1949
05/01 First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964
05/16 First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963
05/21 DEC announces PDP-8
05/21 DEC announces PDP-8, 1965
05/22 Ethernet first described, 1973
05/27 First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958
05/28 First meeting of COBOL definition cte. (eventually CODASYL), 1959
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10/14 British Computer Society founded, 1957
10/15 First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published
10/20 Zurich ALGOL report published, 1958
10/25 DEC announces VAX-11/780
10/25 DEC announces VAX-11/780, 1978
11/04 UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, 1952
12/08 First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965