What Happened in November Nov 01 2005 Software Glitch Halts Tokyo Stock Exchange Nov 02 1815 Logician Boole Born Nov 02 1916 Adriaan van Wijngaarden Born Nov 03 1937 Aiken Approaches IBM Attempting to Create Giant Brain Nov 04 1952 CBS News Uses UNIVAC Computer to Predict Election Nov 05 2006 Internet Boasts 100 Million Sites Nov 06 1980 Microsoft Signs Contract with IBM to Create Operating System Nov 07 1960 RAND's JOSS Operating System Begins Nov 08 1923 Integrated Circuit Co-Inventor Kilby Born Nov 09 2004 Firefox 1.0 Introduced Nov 10 1983 Microsoft Introduces Windows Nov 11 1917 Timesharing Pioneer Fano Born Nov 12 1931 ILLIAC IV Designer Slotnick Born Nov 12 1937 Alan Turing Defines the Universal Machine. Nov 13 1983 MIT's TX-O Computer Turned On for Last Time Nov 14 1943 Software Publisher and Author Peter Norton Born Nov 15 1971 First Advertisement for Microprocessor Appears Nov 16 1922 IBM System 360 Designer Amdahl Born Nov 17 1929 Herman Hollerith Dies Nov 18 1970 Bill Gates Starts Programming Nov 19 1992 Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Is Released Nov 20 1955 Lotus Notes Inventor Ozzie Born Nov 21 1969 First ARPANET Link Put Into Service Nov 22 2005 Xbox 360 Is Released to the North American Market Nov 23 1992 Business Week Predicts Computer Industry "On the Skids" Nov 24 1998 AOL Buys Netscape Nov 25 1997 Pixar's A Bug's Life and Geri's Game Is Released Nov 26 1894 Norbert Wiener Born Nov 27 1995 Microsoft Ships Internet Explorer 2.0 Nov 28 1954 Herbert Bright, Developer of One of the First FORTRAN User Programs, Dies at 67 Nov 29 1972 Atari Announces Pong Game Nov 30 1959 IBM Delivers 7090 Mainframe Computers