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Video Games
1996: Apple Computer halts PowerBook 5300 production and initiates a recall.
2000: Microsoft offers a package of restrictions on its business practices to the Department of Justice, in place of the proposed break-up of the company.
2000: Universal Studios in California hosts the world-premiere showing of the Metal Gear Solid 2 video game for the PlayStation 2.
2000: At Sony Studios in Los Angeles, California, Sony announces initial pricing (US$299), American launch date (October 26), and further details of the PlayStation 2. There are likely to be 51 games available at launch, with Sony games to retail at US$49 each. The system will include one DualShock 2 controller. Extra controllers, 8 MB card, multitap attachment to cist US$34 each. The system will include DVD decoder in the chipset.
2000: Nintendo releases the Funtastic Series of Nintendo 64 consoles in semi-transparent cases: Watermelon, Ice, Jungle, Fire, Smoke, and Grape.
2000: In Los Angeles, California, the Electronic Entertainment Expo is held. Total attendance is 57,800.
2002: Triton Labs ships the Afterburner lighted flat-panel display kit for the Game Boy Advance in the US. Price is U$35.
2004: Intel launches the Pentium M 735, 745, and 755, in speeds of 1.7, 1.8, and 2.0 GHz respectively. They feature 2 MB level 2 cache and 400 MHz front-side bus. The processors are manufactured in a 0.90-micron process. Code-name during development was Dothan.
2004: Microsoft holds a press conference in Los Angeles, California. A video is shown titled The Novice, with Donald Trump poking fun at fake Sony executives, and praising Microsoft executives for their online video game strategies. Microsoft announces it will release Halo 2 with multiplayer support on November 9. Electronic Arts announces it will begin including Xbox Live support in its games. Sale to date of the Xbox: 14 million.
2004: At the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California, the Dear Friends: Music from Final Fantasy concert is held, running for two hours, sponsored by Square Enix. Conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and Los Angeles Master Chorale performing fourteen songs composed by Nobuo Uematsu from the Final Fantasy video games.
2005: SNK releases the Metal Slug 4&5 video game for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox in the US.
2006: In Los Angeles, California, the Electronics Entertainment Expo is held, over three days.
2006: At the Electronic Entertainment Expo, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata says Nintendo is unlikely to produce a new version of the Game Boy Advance in the future.
2000: Microsoft offers a package of restrictions on its business practices to the Department of Justice, in place of the proposed break-up of the company.
2000: Universal Studios in California hosts the world-premiere showing of the Metal Gear Solid 2 video game for the PlayStation 2.
2000: At Sony Studios in Los Angeles, California, Sony announces initial pricing (US$299), American launch date (October 26), and further details of the PlayStation 2. There are likely to be 51 games available at launch, with Sony games to retail at US$49 each. The system will include one DualShock 2 controller. Extra controllers, 8 MB card, multitap attachment to cist US$34 each. The system will include DVD decoder in the chipset.
2000: Nintendo releases the Funtastic Series of Nintendo 64 consoles in semi-transparent cases: Watermelon, Ice, Jungle, Fire, Smoke, and Grape.
2000: In Los Angeles, California, the Electronic Entertainment Expo is held. Total attendance is 57,800.
2002: Triton Labs ships the Afterburner lighted flat-panel display kit for the Game Boy Advance in the US. Price is U$35.
2004: Intel launches the Pentium M 735, 745, and 755, in speeds of 1.7, 1.8, and 2.0 GHz respectively. They feature 2 MB level 2 cache and 400 MHz front-side bus. The processors are manufactured in a 0.90-micron process. Code-name during development was Dothan.
2004: Microsoft holds a press conference in Los Angeles, California. A video is shown titled The Novice, with Donald Trump poking fun at fake Sony executives, and praising Microsoft executives for their online video game strategies. Microsoft announces it will release Halo 2 with multiplayer support on November 9. Electronic Arts announces it will begin including Xbox Live support in its games. Sale to date of the Xbox: 14 million.
2004: At the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California, the Dear Friends: Music from Final Fantasy concert is held, running for two hours, sponsored by Square Enix. Conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and Los Angeles Master Chorale performing fourteen songs composed by Nobuo Uematsu from the Final Fantasy video games.
2005: SNK releases the Metal Slug 4&5 video game for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox in the US.
2006: In Los Angeles, California, the Electronics Entertainment Expo is held, over three days.
2006: At the Electronic Entertainment Expo, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata says Nintendo is unlikely to produce a new version of the Game Boy Advance in the future.
Movies
1990: Susan Oliver, actress (Disorderly Orderly), dies of cancer at age 61.
1992: John Lund, actor (Perils of Pauline), dies at age 81.
1996: Warner Bros. releases the film Twister to theaters.
2000: Death of Craig Stevens AKA Gail Shikles Junior at age 81 of cancer; actor (Peter Gunn, Dallas (1978), Man of the World (1962)).
1992: John Lund, actor (Perils of Pauline), dies at age 81.
1996: Warner Bros. releases the film Twister to theaters.
2000: Death of Craig Stevens AKA Gail Shikles Junior at age 81 of cancer; actor (Peter Gunn, Dallas (1978), Man of the World (1962)).
Music
1992: Death of Sylvia Sims of a heart attack at age 74; singer ("Flower Drum Song").
1995: 30th Academy of Country Music Awards: Reba McEntire wins.
1995: 30th Academy of Country Music Awards: Reba McEntire wins.
Sports
1987: Jody Rosentha wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic.
1989: FC Barcelona wins 29th Europe Cup II.
1992: Jennifer Wyatt wins LPGA Crestar-Fresh Farm Golf Classic.
1992: Sweden wins the Ice Hockey World Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
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1997: Chicago Cubs turn baseball's 68th triple play (vs San Francisco Giants).
2001: A soccer game stampede in Ghana kills over 120.
2009: In Bern, Switzerland, Russia defeats Canada to win gold in the championship game of the International Ice Hockey Federation.
2009: In Catalunya, Spain, round 5 of the FIA Formula 1 World Championship is won by Jenson Button.
1989: FC Barcelona wins 29th Europe Cup II.
1992: Jennifer Wyatt wins LPGA Crestar-Fresh Farm Golf Classic.
1992: Sweden wins the Ice Hockey World Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
1992: , 1996).
1994: Oak Valley).
1994: , Olympics-gold-1996).
1997: Chicago Cubs turn baseball's 68th triple play (vs San Francisco Giants).
2001: A soccer game stampede in Ghana kills over 120.
2009: In Bern, Switzerland, Russia defeats Canada to win gold in the championship game of the International Ice Hockey Federation.
2009: In Catalunya, Spain, round 5 of the FIA Formula 1 World Championship is won by Jenson Button.
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