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1830 – America’s first native locomotive, the “Tom Thumb” lost a race to a draft horse at Ellicotts Mills, Maryland.

http://books.google.com/books?id=Bgno_pNojO4C&pg=PA17&lpg=PA17&dq=september+18+1830+steam+engine&source=bl&ots=mhgjtxUFGL&sig=ikW1TWyC2VGa6oLicl5DUATeVnE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5RwkUN2fBa3riQLW8oDwBw&ved=0CGUQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=september%2018%201830%20steam%20engine&f=false

1927 – The Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System went on the air with 47 radio stations. Within two years it would be sold and become the Columbia Broadcasting System and later simply CBS.

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1985-04-19/news/0290180286_1_columbia-broadcasting-system-turner-broadcasting-cbs-television-network

1998 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers aka ICANN was created in order to take over Internet administrative tasks from the US Government. The most famous of those tasks is overseeing the Domain Name System.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/923082/ICANN

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1890 – Louis Le Prince boarded a train to Paris at Dijon station. Neither he nor his bags ever arrived and his disappearance was never solved. In 188 he had patented a system for taking 16 pictures a second and playing them back as a moving picture.

https://web.archive.org/web/19991128020048/http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/local_heroes/biogs/biogleprince.shtml

1959 – The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, was introduced at the Sherry-Netherland hotel in New York City. One of them caught fire. The demo that was carried live on television did not catch fire.
http://books.google.com/books?id=ZYurhbUh_2gC&pg=PA61&dq=#v=onepage&q&f=false

1985 – Steve Jobs spent his last day as an employee of Apple after submitting his resignation to the board.

http://gizmodo.com/5639822/25-years-ago-today-steve-jobs-left-apple

1997 – After purchasing NeXT the previous December, bringing Steve Jobs back to the company, the Apple Board named Jobs as interim CEO, replacing Gil Amelio.

http://techcrunch.com/2008/09/16/today-in-history-steve-jobs-returns-to-apple/

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1959 – After 33.5 hours of flight, Luna 2 became the first human-made object to strike the moon.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/solarsystem/space_missions/luna_2

2000 – Microsoft released Windows ME. The ME stood for Millenium Edition but deserving or not, would eventually become code for a bad or unnecessary OS update.

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1040-245728.html

2001 – The Nintendo GameCube went on sale in Japan. It was the first Nintendo game console that did not use cartridges.

http://cube.gamespy.com/articles/500/500516p1.html

2015 – The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, LIGO, detected gravitational waves of two merging black holes. It was the first direct observation of gravitational waves.
http://www.wired.com/2016/02/scientists-spot-the-gravity-waves-that-flex-the-universe/

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1928 – Radio station WGY of General Electric made the first simulcast in Schenectady, New York. A play called “The Queen’s Messenger” had its audio broadcast over radio with the picture in sync over television at same time.

http://eyesofageneration.com/cameras-page/ge-cameras/

1985 – ISEE-3, renamed the International Cometary Explorer (ICE), flew through the gas tail of comet P/Giacobini-Zinner.

http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/missions/isee3.html

1998 – The US Congress released the contents of the Starr report on the Internet. The report led to the impeachment, but not the removal, of President Clinton. The websites that hosted the report were slammed with traffic.

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/09/11/starr.report/

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1940 – In McNutt Hall at Dartmouth College, George Stibitz demonstrated the first remote operation of a computer. He connected to his Complex Number Generator at Bell labs by telephone using 28-wire teletype cable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stibitz_plaque_0708_edited-1.jpg

1947 – While troubleshooting the Harvard University Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator, operators found a moth trapped between the points of relay #70 in Panel F. They affixed the bug to the log and wrote “First actual case of bug being found.” While this was not the first use of the term ’bug’ for a computer problem, ‘debugging’ became popular for fixing bugs after this case.

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/09/18/the-very-first-computer-bug/

1995 – The Sony PlayStation went on sale in North America.

http://thenextweb.com/media/2015/09/09/playstation-turns-20-in-the-u-s-heres-a-look-back-at-the-consoles-evolution/

1999 – The Sega Dreamcast debuted in North America. However many were distracted by the supposed 9/9/99 bug that ended up being just as much of a non-problem as the Y2K bug.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2009/09/the-swirl-that-shook-gaming-the-sega-dreamcast-turns-10/
http://www.zdnet.com/9999-not-a-problem-say-bug-experts-3002073449/

2014 – Apple announced the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 and 5.5-inch iPhone 6+ along with Apple Pay, a system that used NFC for payments. The company also unveiled the Apple Watch.

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2014/09/09/apple-unveils-apple-watch/

2015 – Apple announced a new 12.9-inch iPad Pro, a new Apple TV with a hard drive and remote with a touchpad and the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus with force touch capability.

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2015/09/09/everything-apple-announced-at-its-september-2015-event/

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