History Home
Events     Birthdays     Deaths     Years

Add "Today in History" or "Today's Birthdays" to Your Site - it's Easy!

Google Web brainyhistory.com   
Introduces


1993 Intel introduces Pentium-processor (80586) 64 bits-60 MHz-100+ MIPS

1988 IBM introduces software for artificial intelligence

1988 Hewlett-Packard introduces HP-28S Advanced Scientific Calculator

1987 Philips introduces CD-video

1987 IBM introduces PS/2 and OS/2

1985 Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip

1985 John Williams introduces new Today Show theme

1983 U.S. president Ronald Reagan introduces "Star Wars" missile defense plan (SDI)

1981 IBM introduces PC and PC-DOS version 1.0

1977 General Motors introduces 1st U.S. diesel auto (Oldsmobile 88)

1970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer

1968 Motion Picture Association of America introduces rating system (G, M, R, X)

1966 Australia introduces 1st decimal currency postage stamps

1964 Baskin-Robbins introduces Beatle Nut ice cream

1963 Bell Telephone introduces push button telephone

1961 Russia introduces a new ruble worth $1.11

1959 U.S.S.R. introduces installment buying

1959 West Germany introduces 5 day work week

1957 Ford Motor Co introduces Edsel

1954 Michigan rep Ruth Thompson (R) introduces legislation to ban mailing "obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy" phonograph (rock and roll) records

1953 California introduces sales tax, for education

1952 TWA introduces tourist class

1951 Dutch Reformed Church introduces new church choir

1949 RCA introduces 45 RPM record

1948 Bernard M. Baruch introduces term "Cold War"

1947 President Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism

1941 General Mills introduces Cheerios

1939 Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph the 9th reindeer

1939 Billboard Magazine introduces hillbilly (country) music chart

1936 Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's "Volkswagen"

1932 "Free Eats" introduces George "Spanky" McFarland to "Our Gang"

1931 Dupont introduces synthetic rubber

1929 Turkey introduces female suffrage

1929 Louie Marx introduces Yo-Yo

1914 Henry Ford introduces assembly line, for T-Fords

1913 New York Armory Show introduces Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp to U.S. public

1911 Belgian Mining law introduces 9 -hour work day

1908 Henry Ford introduces Model T car

1906 Einstein introduces his Theory of Relativity

1891 Nebraska introduces 8 hour work day

1889 Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany)

1878 Harley Procter introduces Ivory Soap

1872 Britain introduces secret ballot voting

1865 Sen Everett Dirksen introduces a bill to make marigold the national flower

1850 Henry Clay introduces a comprise bill on slavery to U.S. Senate

1837 Isaac Pitman introduces his steno system

1824 J. W. Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to public

1741 Astronomer Anders Celcius introduces Centigrade temperature scale

1586 Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England, from Colombia

1586 Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe

1553 Flemish woman introduces practice of starching linen into England

1352 French king Jean II introduces Order of the Star



History Home    Copyright 2007 BrainyMedia.com