What Happened in December Dec 01 1913 Colossus Team Member Chandler Born Dec 01 1941 Microprocessor Co-Inventor Faggin Born Dec 02 1954 US Navy Dedicates NORC Machine Dec 03 1968 CDC Announces 7600 Supercomputer Dec 03 1924 John Backus Born Dec 04 1985 Cray X-MP Supercomputer Begins Operation Dec 05 1965 The First PhD Dissertation in Computer Science Is Presented Dec 06 1907 Mathematical Logician Rosser Born Dec 07 1999 The Recording Industry Association of America Sues Napster Dec 08 1947 The Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. Is Incorporated Dec 09 1906 Computer Pioneer Grace Hopper Born Dec 10 1815 Ada, Lady Lovelace, Born Dec 11 1946 Frederick Williams Receives Patent for Memory Device Dec 12 1980 Apple Computer's Initial Public Offering Dec 13 2004 David Wheeler, Inventor of the Closed Subroutine, Dies Dec 13 1991 Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Launches First Web Site outside Europe Dec 14 1952 US Navy Approaches MIT to Create Whirlwind Dec 14 1954 Whirlwind Computer Appears on National TV Dec 15 1896 Hollerith Agrees to Supply Machines for Russian Census Dec 16 1925 IBM-701 Team Member McClelland Born Dec 17 1920 APL Co-Inventor Iverson Born Dec 18 1991 IBM and Siemens AG Announce 64M DRAM Chip Prototype Dec 19 1921 APL Co-Inventor Falkoff Born Dec 20 1943 Norman Bel Geddes Designs ASSC Machine Cover Dec 21 1929 APT and AED Developer Doug Ross Born Dec 21 1968 Integrated Circuits Used in Moonshot Dec 22 1955 The FINAC, the Italian Mark I*, Is Inaugurated Dec 23 1947 Bardeen and Brattain Demonstrate the Transistor to Bell Labs Supervisors Dec 24 2002 Microsoft Vows to Appeal Decision after Sun Microsystems Wins a Major Antitrust Victory Dec 25 2012 Iran Mitigates New Stuxnet-Style Attack Dec 26 1982 Time magazine Names a Non-Human "Man of the Year" Dec 26 1791 Charles Babbage Born Dec 27 1995 France Concludes Nuclear Weapons Tests Dec 28 1903 John von Neumann Born Dec 29 1939 Shockley Makes Historic Notebook Entry Dec 30 2004 Facebook Registers One Millionth User Dec 31 1976 Microcomputer Pioneer CROMEMCO Is Incorporated
