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Video Games
1993: IBM announces the Power Personal System Division.
1999: In San Jose, California, Apple Computer files a lawsuit against Future Power and parent company Daewoo over the recently introduced E-Power personal computer that looks nearly identical to the Apple iMac.
1999: Nintendo releases the Pokémon Snap video game for the Nintendo 64 in the US. Price is US$49.95.
2002: Apple Computer buys the Emagic company, maker of the Logic audio software.
2004: Apple Computer stops taking orders for iMac G4 computers, with new iMac G5 computers to be introduced soon.
2005: Microsoft and IBM settle legal claims arising from the US Justice Department's antitrust case against Microsoft in the mid-1990s. Microsoft agrees to pay IBM US$775 million cash and US$75 million in credit toward Microsoft software.
1999: In San Jose, California, Apple Computer files a lawsuit against Future Power and parent company Daewoo over the recently introduced E-Power personal computer that looks nearly identical to the Apple iMac.
1999: Nintendo releases the Pokémon Snap video game for the Nintendo 64 in the US. Price is US$49.95.
2002: Apple Computer buys the Emagic company, maker of the Logic audio software.
2004: Apple Computer stops taking orders for iMac G4 computers, with new iMac G5 computers to be introduced soon.
2005: Microsoft and IBM settle legal claims arising from the US Justice Department's antitrust case against Microsoft in the mid-1990s. Microsoft agrees to pay IBM US$775 million cash and US$75 million in credit toward Microsoft software.
Movies
1986: Death of Roy Poole at age 62; actor (Winds of War).
1991: Michael Landon, American actor (Bonanza, Little House on the Prairie), dies at age 54 from cancer (born 1936).
1997: Death of Robert Mitchum of lung cancer and emphysema at age 79; actor (The Winds of War TV mini-series, War and Remembrance TV mini-series).
1998: Buena Vista releases the film Armageddon to theaters.
1999: Death of Sylvia Sidney at age 88; actress (46 years of TV guest appearances, WKRP, Thirtysomething, Fantasy Island).
2000: Death of Walter Matthau at age 79 from a heart attack; actor (The Odd Couple movie).
2009: Fox releases the film Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs to theaters.
2009: Death of Karl Malden, Hollywood actor (How the West Was Won, Birdman of Alcatraz, Patton, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Streets of San Francisco), president of Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (1989-92), at his Los Angeles home at age 97.
1991: Michael Landon, American actor (Bonanza, Little House on the Prairie), dies at age 54 from cancer (born 1936).
1997: Death of Robert Mitchum of lung cancer and emphysema at age 79; actor (The Winds of War TV mini-series, War and Remembrance TV mini-series).
1998: Buena Vista releases the film Armageddon to theaters.
1999: Death of Sylvia Sidney at age 88; actress (46 years of TV guest appearances, WKRP, Thirtysomething, Fantasy Island).
2000: Death of Walter Matthau at age 79 from a heart attack; actor (The Odd Couple movie).
2009: Fox releases the film Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs to theaters.
2009: Death of Karl Malden, Hollywood actor (How the West Was Won, Birdman of Alcatraz, Patton, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Streets of San Francisco), president of Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (1989-92), at his Los Angeles home at age 97.
Music
1995: Death of Wolfman Jack AKA Robert Weston Smith at age 57 following a heart attack; disk jockey (XERF, XERB in Mexico), announcer (The Midnight Special TV show).
2007: The Concert For Diana is held at Wembley Stadium to commemorate Diana, Princess of Wales.
2007: The Concert For Diana is held at Wembley Stadium to commemorate Diana, Princess of Wales.
Sports
1987: WHN-AM in New York City changes call letters to WFAN, becomes first 24 hour all sports radio.
1989: NFL owners vote unanimously to form the WLAF.
2009: Death of Alexis Arguello, mayor of Managua, Nicaragua, former champion lightweight boxer, at age 57, of a gunshot.
1989: NFL owners vote unanimously to form the WLAF.
2009: Death of Alexis Arguello, mayor of Managua, Nicaragua, former champion lightweight boxer, at age 57, of a gunshot.
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