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2013 Event - Research In Motion, the Canadian manufacturer of wireless devices, releases the Blackberry 10, its newest operating system for Blackberrys; the company also announces two smartphones, the Z10 and Q10

2013 Event - Austria holds a national referendum on whether or not to retain its system of conscription for the army and social service for young men; they vote to keep military service compulsory

2012 Event - Scientists studying the Sutter's Mill meteorite, found near where the Sutter's Mill California Gold Rush site, determine it contains the oldest material in the Solar System

2012 Event - In the U.S., over 60 people die in the Mid-Atlantic states as the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy leaves millions without electricity and cripples its mass transportation system

2012 Event - Astronomers have identified the nearest planet outside of our Solar System, Alpha Centauri B, which circles its star much closer than Mercury orbits our Sun

2012 Event - Sequoia, IMB's Blue Gene/Q system installed at the Department of Energy becomes the world's fastest supercomputer

2012 Event - Australia's Nepean-Hawkesbury River system floods after the Warragamba Dam overflows, causing evacuations in the Sydney suburbs Richmond, Pitt Town and Grono Point

2011 Event - Part of the Prompt Global Strike program, a U.S. hypersonic weapon system undergoes a successful test, proving capable of striking targets 3,700 kilometres (2,300 miles) away in under 30 minutes

2011 Event - NASA reveals its Space Launch System plan, intended to replace the Space Shuttle program with its first flight scheduled for 2017

2011 Event - Nintendo's new video game system, the Wii U is introduced; it has a touch-screen display designed as a bridge between portable and tablet-based games and console video games

2011 Event - At a meeting in Nanjing, China, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the main problem in the world's monetary system is countries that inhibit the free flow of the value of their currency

2011 Event - A professor from New York University has an experimental life-blogging camera removed from his head after his immune system rejected the implant

2010 Event - Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, calls for the US to be expelled from the international nuclear system because religion prohibits the use of nuclear weapons

2005 Event - London's transit system is bombed by terrorists, 56 deaths, 700 injured

1996 Event - Television industry executives agree to adopt a ratings system

1996 Event - Nintendo 64 video game system debuts in USA (3 months after Japan)

1995 Event - Spanish Broadcasting System buys New York radio station WPAT-FM for $83.5M

1994 Event - Dwingeloo 1, near milky way system, discovered

1993 Death - Donald Alexander, System director/producer (East Valley), dies at 79

1992 Death - Arpad E Elo, Hungarian physicist (chess classification system), dies

1991 Event - University of Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of solar system

1991 Event - Apple releases Macintosh System 7.0

1990 Event - Police kill 8 demonstrators for multi party system in Nepal

1990 Event - Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system

1989 Event - Scandinavian Airlines System bans smoking on many flights

1989 Event - Minor League Football System opens organizational meeting, St. Louis

1988 Event - New York City Subway system adds new stations (Z line)

1988 Event - System Enhancement Assoc settles case with PKware (ARC vs PKARC)

1987 Death - Wilbur J Cohen, 1st employee of Social Security System, dies at 73

1986 Event - New York City transit system issues a new brass with steel bullseye token

1985 Event - French government adopts equal electoral system

1984 Event - 1st planet outside our solar system discovered

1984 Event - AT&T's 22 owned Bell system companies divests into 8 companies

1983 Event - Cryptographic Communications System and Method (RSA) patented

1983 Event - Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion

1983 Event - Pioneer 10 is 1st man-made object to leave Solar System

1982 Event - WQXI, Atlanta, is 1st to use Harris Corp AM stereo system

1982 Event - AT&T agrees to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies

1982 Event - Metropolitan Transportation Authority launches a 5 year plan to upgrade the New York City subway system

1982 Event - TA launches 5 year capital program to overhaul New York City subway system

1980 Event - Sears Radio Theater moves from CBS to Mutual Broadcasting System

1979 Event - European Monetary System is established, ECU created

1978 Event - EG decides establishes EMS, European Monetary System

1978 Event - Jimmy Carter more than doubles national park system size

1978 Event - 1st Computer Bulletin Board System (Ward and Randy's CBBS, Chicago)

1977 Event - 1st oil through the TransAlaska Pipeline System reach Valdez, Alaska

1975 Death - Maxwell Maltz, cosmetic surgeon, author, self-help pioneer, invented Psycho-Cybernetics, system to improve one's self-image, lead a better life, wrote, 'Psycho-Cybernetics', believes positive self-view key to achieving goals, dies

1973 Event - NFL adopts jersey numbering system (ie quarterbacks, 1-19)

1971 Event - 1st legal off-track betting system begins (OTB-New York)

1971 Event - After 1,200 years Britain abandons 12-shilling system for decimal

1971 Event - Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House

1970 Event - IBM announces System 370 computer

1970 Event - Movie rating system modifies "M" rating to "PG"

1969 Birthday - Linus Torvalds, born in Helsinki, Finland, inventor, software engineer, pioneered development of the Linux kernel, a free, open source software operating system

1968 Event - Motion Picture Association of America introduces rating system (G, M, R, X)

1968 Event - Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system

1968 Event - 178,000 employees of U.S. Bell Telephone System go on strike

1968 Event - Country's 1st 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville, Ala

1967 Event - International Monetary Fund reforms world monetary system

1967 Birthday - Serj Tankian, born in Beirut, Lebanon, singer, songwriter, rhythm guitarist, political activist, Grammy-Award winning band, System of a Down

1966 Death - Isaac Keesing, Dutch founder (System Keesing), dies at 80

1963 Event - U.S. postal service institutes zip code system, Zone Improvement Plan

1961 Event - British government begins decimal coin system

1960 Event - 1st atomic reactor system patents, J W Flora of Canoga Park, California

1960 Event - John Reynolds sets age of solar system at 4,950,000,000 years

1959 Birthday - Neal Stephenson, born in Fort Meade, Maryland, author books include, 'The System of the World', ''Anathem', 'Quicksilver', 'The Confusion'

1958 Event - Buses replace Key System trains at 3 AM

1956 Event - Federal interstate highway system act signed

1954 Event - President Eisenhower put forward a plan for an interstate highway system

1951 Event - Leidse astronomers discover radio signal out of Milky Way system

1951 Birthday - Dean Kamen, born in Rockville Centre, New York, inventor, entrepreneur, created the Segway, the AutoSyringe - a mobile dialysis system, and the insulin pump

1950 Birthday - Anthony Lloyd, born in England, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Manchester Central, gay rights supporter, voted against the Iraq War and against renewal of the Trident Nuclear Missile System

1950 Event - NFL rule changes open way for 2-platoon system (offense and defense)

1946 Event - New York City transit begins using Pennsylvania system - Car # 744 on 8th Ave IND line

1945 Birthday - Mark J. Green, born in Brooklyn, New York, lawyer and author, Closed Enterprise System

1944 Birthday - Millie Jackson, born in Thompson, Georgia, model/singer, Get it out 'cha system

1943 Birthday - Rolf Gehlhaar, born in Breslau, Poland, composer, known for computer-controlled composition, sound installations using Sound Space system

1943 Event - Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens city's new subway system

1943 Event - Postmaster General Frank C Walker invents Postal Zone System

1942 Event - Bill Terry resigns as supervisor of New York Giants minor league system

1938 Event - Electronic television system patented by V. K. Zworykin

1938 Event - Vladimir K Zworykin (Penn) receives patent on Iconoscope TV system

1938 Event - AAU's decides to continue linear measuring system over metric

1937 Event - U.S. Social Security system makes its 1st benefit payment

1933 Event - 1st police radio system operated, Eastchester Township, New York

1933 Event - 1st voice amplification system to be used in U.S. Senate

1933 Event - Curom, Curacaose Broadcast System starts: Princess Juliana's speech

1933 Birthday - Ray Dolby, sound expert/inventor, Dolby noise limiting system

1929 Event - SF Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system

1929 Event - Loetafoon celluloid film system demonstrated in Amsterdam

1928 Event - President Hoover speaks of "American system of rugged individualism"

1928 Event - Mussolini modifies Italy electoral system (abolishes right to choose)

1928 Birthday - Ezra Sims, born in Birmingham, Alabama, composer of microtonal music, Joseph Maneri adopted his system of notation, composed in quarter tones, received Guggenheim Fellowship

1926 Event - Warner Bros premieres Vitaphone sound-on-disc movie system

1925 Event - Nationwide road numbering system and U.S. shield marker adopted

1921 Birthday - Jack Valenti, born in Houston, Texas, Motion Picture Association of America President, created MPAA film rating system

1921 Event - Clason Point, Bronx to College Point, Queens muni ferry system begins

1921 Event - Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system

1914 Event - Federal Reserve System formally opens

1913 Birthday - Wilbur J. Cohen, 1st employee of Social Security System

1912 Event - Irving Fisher patents archiving system with index cards

1910 Birthday - Josef Tal, born in Pinne, Poland, born Joseph Gruenthal, composer, pianist, played hard with Palestine Orchestra, developed notational system for computer-generated compositions at Hebrew University

1908 Event - Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System

1906 Event - 1st freight delivery tunnel system begins, underneath Chicago

1903 Event - Yerba Buena is 1st Key System ferry to cross San Francisco Bay

1902 Birthday - James Van Alen, created Simplified Scoring System for tennis

1899 Birthday - Maxwell Maltz, born in America, cosmetic surgeon, author, self-help pioneer, invented Psycho-Cybernetics, system to improve one's self-image, lead a better life, wrote, 'Psycho-Cybernetics', believes positive self-view key to achieving goals

1899 Event - Ill Tel and Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system

1896 Event - Vitascope system of movie projection 1st demonstrated (New York City)

1895 Birthday - Bertil Lindblad, Swedish astronomer, Milky Way system

1895 Event - Anaheim completes it's new electric light system

1888 Event - Leroy Buffington patents a system to build skyscrapers

1886 Birthday - Isaac Keesing, Dutch publisher/founder, System Keesing

1883 Event - Utrecht begins water pipe system

1883 Event - Pendleton Act creates basis of U.S. Civil Service system

1880 Event - 1st U.S. sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, Memphis

1879 Event - 1st automatic telephone switching system patented

1872 Event - Phillip W Pratt patents his sprinkler system for extinguishing fires

1871 Event - The decimal currency system is made uniform in Canada

1871 Event - Congress establishes the civil service system

1866 Event - Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in U.S.

1865 Event - Fire alarm and police telegraph system put into operation in San Francisco

1863 Event - Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currency

1859 Birthday - Georg Knorr, German engineer, brake system trains

1858 Event - Canada begins using decimal currency system

1857 Event - England passes an act putting Canada on the decimal currency system

1853 Birthday - Alphonse Bertillon, born in France, anthropologist, devised crime ID system

1851 Birthday - Melvil[le Louis K] Dewey, created Dewey Decimal System for libraries

1849 Birthday - William Osler, born in Canada, physician/author, circulatory system

1843 Event - Congress appropriates $30,000 "to test the practicability of establishing a system of electro-magnetic telegraphs" by the US

1840 Event - Penny Post mail system is starts

1837 Event - Isaac Pitman introduces his steno system

1824 Birthday - John Kerr, System physicist, electro-visually Kerr-effect

1809 Event - Dutch King Louis Napoleon accepts metric system

1809 Birthday - Louis Braille, Coupvray France, developer, reading system for blind

1799 Event - Metric system established in France

1794 Death - James Adam, System architect (essays on agriculture), dies at about 64

1794 Birthday - Elias M Fries, Swedish botanist, System mycologicum

1793 Event - France becomes 1st country to use the metric system

1790 Event - U.S. Patent system forms

1789 Event - French National Meeting ending feudal system

1786 Event - Congress adopts silver dollar and decimal system of money

1722 Event - Czar Peter the Great begins civil system

1688 Death - Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher (Intellectual system), dies at 70?

1578 Event - Tycho Brahe 1st sketches "Tychonic system" of solar system

1500 Birthday - Alexander Alesius, Aless/Alane, System theologist/physician

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