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Video Games
1997: Motorola Computer Group announces it is leaving the Macintosh systems market, due to inability to reach a viable business agreement with Apple Computer on licensing the Mac OS. Motorola also announces it will not ship StarMax 6000 systems previously announced.
1997: Midway Amusement Games releases the Mortal Kombat 4 video game Version 1.0 to arcades in the US.
2005: The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A child complains that Santa Claus gave him a PlayStation box with nothing inside but a coloring book.
2009: The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit overturns a US$358 million damages award against Microsoft in a patent dispute with French telecoms equipment firm Alcatel-Lucent. The judge agreed Microsoft did infringe the patents, but said the damages awarded were not justified.
1997: Midway Amusement Games releases the Mortal Kombat 4 video game Version 1.0 to arcades in the US.
2005: The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A child complains that Santa Claus gave him a PlayStation box with nothing inside but a coloring book.
2009: The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit overturns a US$358 million damages award against Microsoft in a patent dispute with French telecoms equipment firm Alcatel-Lucent. The judge agreed Microsoft did infringe the patents, but said the damages awarded were not justified.
Movies
1987: Lorne Greene, Canadian actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica), dies at age 72 (born 1915).
1993: The ABC TV network airs the last episode of Goof Troop.
1993: The ABC TV network airs the last show of the Darkwing Duck series.
1995: The TV talk show Danny first airs.
2002: Death of Kim Hunter AKA Janet Cole at age 79 of a heart attack; actress (A Streetcar Named Desire (1951, Academy award), Playhouse 90, The Edge of Night, All My Children, The Education of Max Bickford).
2003: Actor John Ritter is stricken by a previously undiagnosed heart problem during the taping of the TV sitcom 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, dying in hospital at age 54.
2005: Death of Chris Schenkel at age 82 of emphysema; sportscasters (play-by-play for ABC TV on college football, Major League Baseball, NBA basketball, golf and tennis tournaments, boxing, auto racing, Summer and Winter Olympic Games, Professional Bowling).
2006: Death of Pat Corley at age 76 of congestive heart failure; actor (Phil - Murphy Brown TV show, Bay City Blues TV show, Hill St. Blues TV show, He's the Mayor TV show, Robert Kennedy and his Times, Roots, Fresno).
1993: The ABC TV network airs the last episode of Goof Troop.
1993: The ABC TV network airs the last show of the Darkwing Duck series.
1995: The TV talk show Danny first airs.
2002: Death of Kim Hunter AKA Janet Cole at age 79 of a heart attack; actress (A Streetcar Named Desire (1951, Academy award), Playhouse 90, The Edge of Night, All My Children, The Education of Max Bickford).
2003: Actor John Ritter is stricken by a previously undiagnosed heart problem during the taping of the TV sitcom 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, dying in hospital at age 54.
2005: Death of Chris Schenkel at age 82 of emphysema; sportscasters (play-by-play for ABC TV on college football, Major League Baseball, NBA basketball, golf and tennis tournaments, boxing, auto racing, Summer and Winter Olympic Games, Professional Bowling).
2006: Death of Pat Corley at age 76 of congestive heart failure; actor (Phil - Murphy Brown TV show, Bay City Blues TV show, Hill St. Blues TV show, He's the Mayor TV show, Robert Kennedy and his Times, Roots, Fresno).
Music
1993: Death of Erich Leinsdorf in Vienna, Austria; conductor, concert pianist, director of the New York Metropolitan Opera (1939) (born 1912).
Sports
1985: At Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio, Major League Baseball player/manager Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds gets career record hit 4,192 off Eric Show of San Diego Padres, eclipsing Ty Cobb's record.
1985: Birth of Jake Cole; English football player.
1999: Eric Milton of the Minnesota Twins pitches a 7-0 no-hitter against the Anaheim Angels.
2002: Death of Johnny Unitas, American football player (born 1933).
2004: Barry Bonds becomes the first major league baseball player to walk over 200 times in a single season.
2005: Death of Chris Schenkel at age 82 of emphysema; sportscasters (play-by-play for ABC TV on college football, Major League Baseball, NBA basketball, golf and tennis tournaments, boxing, auto racing, Summer and Winter Olympic Games, Professional Bowling).
2007: (to September 24) Inaugural Twenty20 World Championship is held.
2007: Death of Ian Porterfield, Scottish football player (born 1946).
2008: Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports pays nearly US$1 billion for the commercial and marketing rights to the inaugural Twenty20 Champions League of cricket for the next ten years.
1985: Birth of Jake Cole; English football player.
1999: Eric Milton of the Minnesota Twins pitches a 7-0 no-hitter against the Anaheim Angels.
2002: Death of Johnny Unitas, American football player (born 1933).
2004: Barry Bonds becomes the first major league baseball player to walk over 200 times in a single season.
2005: Death of Chris Schenkel at age 82 of emphysema; sportscasters (play-by-play for ABC TV on college football, Major League Baseball, NBA basketball, golf and tennis tournaments, boxing, auto racing, Summer and Winter Olympic Games, Professional Bowling).
2007: (to September 24) Inaugural Twenty20 World Championship is held.
2007: Death of Ian Porterfield, Scottish football player (born 1946).
2008: Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports pays nearly US$1 billion for the commercial and marketing rights to the inaugural Twenty20 Champions League of cricket for the next ten years.
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