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- 1671: Bill Gates
- ... Hundreds of companies followed. MS-DOS dominated the market much like VHS beat out Betamax and how early TV sales boomed. The more people bought the product, the more companies produced it and with the television, the more sets were sold, the more programming was available. This was a main reason why Apple's Macintosh only controlled 9% of the market(Schlender 40). "The PC story would be far different if ...
- 1672: Biograhy of Arnold Schwarzenegger
- ... 1975, Schwarzenegger focused his energies in other endeavors, specifically, real estate investment, and a film career. Schwarzenegger's first film, Hercules In New York (a.k.a. Hercules Goes Bannanas) was a made-for -Italian-television spoof that eventually made its way to America. The low quality of the film did not help Schwarzenegger's movie career. However, Schwarzenegger's stock value skyrocketed with the documentary Pumping Iron, a film which ...
- 1673: The Identity of Thomas Pynchon
- ... and some biographical information gleaned from newspaper and magazine accounts. These elements humanize the author; there is no magic aura surrounding him or her. Readers come to recognize the familiar face of an author on television or in the newspapers, and a bond is created. Readers know the author because they know his or her creations, and the physical presence of the author reinforces this link. Pynchon takes this notion and ...
- 1674: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- ... R. Barnett of Mississippi ignored a court order and prevented James H. Meredith, a black man, from enrolling at the state university. On the night of September 29, even as the president went on national television to appeal to the people of Mississippi to obey the law, rioting began on the campus. After 15 hours of rioting and two deaths, Kennedy sent in troops to restore order. Meredith was admitted to ...
- 1675: Ray Charles Robinson
- ... was sad he was very sad. Today, Charles has two ex-wives, nine children, and seven grandchildren. He has vowed to remain a bachelor because of his two failed marriages. He is often seen on television now, as a spokes person for Pepsi-Cola. He has earned his place in music history, a living legend.
- 1676: Dr Daniel J. Boorstin
- ... notable work. He is one of America's most eminent historians, the author of more than fifteen books and numerous articles on the history of the United States, as well as a creator of a television show. His editor-wife, Ruth Frankel Boorstin, a Wellesley graduate, has been his close collaborator. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Oklahoma, he received his undergraduate degree with highest honors from Harvard and his ...
- 1677: Wayne Gretzky: Comparing Two Biographies
- ... could skate at two years old. He was well known by people at six. When he was ten, he was signing autographs and had a national magazine article written about him. A thirty- minutes national television show done on him at fifteen. It also talk about Gretzky's hero when he was a kid. He was a funny guy. He was Gretzky's hockey instructor. He was also his lacrosse, baseball ...
- 1678: The Life of John F. Kennedy
- ... the Presidential Election. His opponent, Richard M. Nixon, was a popular person, he had previously been the vice-president under Dwight Eisenhower. Together they became the first Presidential opponents to debate face-to-face on television. John Kennedy won the election. During his years as president, John helped pass a number of laws. He also established the United States Peace Corps, through executive order. On November 22, 1963 Kennedy went to ...
- 1679: John F. Kennedy
- ... better. Kennedy indeed won the election by a very narrow margin, so narrow that the victory could almost be attributed to any list of decisive factors. However there are seven that prominantly stick out. The Television Debates. At this point in American history this was the most televised campaign ever and Kennedy' s vitality and knowledge appealed to millions of voters who probably would have simply acknowledged him as too inexperienced ...
- 1680: Neil Armstrong
- ... United States President Richard Nixon in the White House. The men found that walking and running at one-sixth the gravity of Earth was not difficult. Also by satellite communication, millions of people watched live television broadcast from the moon. Returning to the Lunar Module, and taking off their space suits, the two astronauts rested several hours before takeoff. They left the moon in the ascent stage of the Lunar Module ...
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