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Walt Disney holds a press conference in November , during which he discusses plans for what would become the Walt Disney World Resort. Walt Disney dies in December of before construction begins on the resort. His brother Roy O. Disney takes over the project and postpones his own retirement in order to complete it. Construction on the Magic Kingdom park and several resorts is finished and Walt Disney World officially opens on October 1st of The Walt Disney World theme park has its grand opening during October of Located near Orlando, Florida, the grounds were built on swamplands that Walt Disney began purchasing during the s.

By , Disney publicly announced plans for the park but he died in before construction could begin. The UAE was formed as an autocratic federation of seven emirates each controlled by a hereditary governor. The nation has become strikingly diverse and modern partially due to its location on the Persian Gulf. The Mariner 9 spacecraft became the first spacecraft to enter the orbit of another planet on November 14th of Mariner 9 had been launched on May 30th of It was successful in its missions which were becoming the first artificial satellite to orbit Mars, mapping the surface of Mars, gathering atmospheric data, and taking highly detailed images of the surface.

The Mariner 9 spacecraft stopped its communications in October of and is expected to remain in orbit around Mars for around 50 years before it will fall into the atmosphere of the red planet, Mars.

The nation of Qatar became independent from the United Kingdom during September of Located on the Arabian Peninsula, Qatar had been a British protectorate since and had also been ruled by the House of Thani since the early 19th century.

Qatar had a simple transition to independence as under its previous agreement with the United Kingdom, the country had already had internal autonomy. The independence agreement removed all British influence and involvement and Qatar became a fully sovereign state ruled by the Al Thani family as a hereditary constitutional monarchy. There were some issues with docking the modules, that were overcome after several attempts.

Once they arrived on the Moon, Shepard became the fifth person to walk on the Moon and the first to try golfing on the surface after he attached a golf club head onto a lunar tool and attempted a few swings. The crew made it safely back to Earth on February 9th after nine days and brought back over 90 pounds of lunar rocks and samples to be examined.

The first crew arrived a few days after its launch but they were unable to dock and had to abandon the mission. It was not until June that the Soyuz 11 became the first crew to board the space station and spent a record-breaking 23 days there. The Salyut 1 space station orbited for a total of days before it was purposefully de-orbited and disintegrated above the Pacific.

Ibrox disaster in Scotland when On January 2nd 66 die in stairway crush at Rangers v Celtic football match. Peru Earthquake results in the destruction of the town of Chungar, Peru, and the death of most of the towns people.

Prison riot and prisoners take hostages at Attica Prison in New York, resulting in the death of 10 hostages and 29 inmates. They did. The HP helped HP become one of the most dominant companies in the handheld calculator market for more than two decades.

In , Sperry Rand Corporation received a patent, initially filed by J. Sperry Rand sued Honeywell on claims of patent infringement, while Honeywell filed a suit charging Sperry Rand with monopolistic practices and fraud, seeking to invalidate the patent. John Vincent Atanasoff. This was the first commercial use of commodity semiconductor memory in a large computer system. The introduction of the 1 KB Intel memory chip marks both the beginning of the end for the use of magnetic core in computers -- in use since the mids -- and the start of the semiconductor dynamic random-access memory DRAM integrated circuit memory.

The sold slowly at first, but this likely helped the development team at Intel, which was still ironing out details about the chip's specifications after its initial release. The first advertisement for a microprocessor, the Intel , appears in Electronic News. Developed for Busicom, a Japanese calculator maker, the had transistors and could perform up to 90, operations per second in four-bit chunks.

Federico Faggin led the design and Ted Hoff led the architecture. It includes over 60 commands like: b compile B program ; boot reboot system ; cat concatenate files ; chdir change working directory ; chmod change access mode ; chown change owner ; cp copy file ; ls list directory contents ; mv move or rename file ; roff run off text ; wc get word count ; who who is one the system. The main thing missing was pipes. Ray Tomlinson sends the first e-mail , the first messaging system to send messages across a network to other users.

The computer gets a voice, IBM introduces its first speech recognition program capable of recognizing about 5, words. Bob Bemer published world's first warning on the Year problem in The first laser printer is developed at Xerox PARC , and Alan Kay sketches the first concepts of what today we consider a tablet computer. This development helped create the foundation to wireless networking, and later the birth of Wi-Fi. LSI large-scale integration chips begin being developed.

The first microcontroller was created by Texas Instruments engineer Gary Boone in