2014 Event A U.S. lawsuit against IBM and Ford Motor Company, seeking damages for the companies' transactions with the former apartheid government, has been dismissed; the transactions were conducted by foreign units and are not under jurisdiction of U.S. law 2013 Event On the first day of its release, Sony's PlayStation 4 sells 1 million units in the U.S. and Canada; the PS4 launches in Europe November 29th, and Japan February 22, 2014 2011 Event U.S. company Apple Inc. breaks company sales records with the release of its iPhone 4S smartphone with over 4 million units sold in 4 days 1965 Event 1st large-scale U.S. Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam 1945 Event 1st U.S. units reach east coast of Okinawa 1943 Event Russian units reach suburbs of Orel 1942 Event German units go through Red October-factory in Stalingrad
