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1998 Tellabs Inc. acquires Coherent Communications Systems for $670 million

1993 Atlantic Radio (20 radio stations) becomes American Radio Systems

1990 East and West Germany sign a treaty to join legal and political systems

1970 "The Epoch" (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT)

1962 Ross Perot begins Electronic Data Systems, EDS

1953 Tod Machover, born in Mount Vernon, New York, composer, innovative use of technology in music, designed interactive systems for Yo Yo Ma, Ying Quartet

1939 Max Neuhaus, born in Beaumont, Texas, composer, percussionist, avant-garde, experimental genres, interpreter of contemporary music, sound art pioneer, designed sound generation and projection systems

1936 John White, born in Berlin, Germany, composer, musician, tuba player, invented Systems music, a British form of minimalism, influences include Howard Skempton, Cornelius Cardew

1926 Earle Brown, born in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, composer, known for reviving interest in classical music with musical improvisation, creating formal and notational systems, and open forum style of muscial construction

1924 Edwin Hubble announces existence of other galactic systems

1818 Lewis H. Morgan, U.S., etnologist, Systems of Consanguinity


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