PC DOS version 2.0 released

IBM releases PC DOS version 2.0 on March 8, 1983.




Retro History for March 8 The 50s 60s 70s 80s

Retro History For The Decade 1980

1989 "Heidi Chronicles" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 621 performances
1989 Roger Kingdom runs indoor world record 60m hurdles (7.37 seconds)
1987 17th Easter Seal Telethon raises $35,184,425
1987 David Hookes (306*) Wayne Phillips make 462 stand for South Australia
1987 FBI apprehends most wanted Claude L Dallas, Jr. in California
1987 Jane Geddes wins LPGA GNA/Glendale Federal Golf Classic
1987 Nelli Cooman becomes world champion 60m indoor
1986 4 French TV crew members are abducted in Beirut Lebanon
1986 Japanese probe Suisei passes Halley's Comet at 109,800 km
1986 Martina Navratilova is 1st tennis player to earn $10 million
1985 Ice Dance Championship at Tokyo won by Bestemianova and Bukin (URS)
1983 House Foreign Affairs Committee endorses nuclear weapons freeze with U.S.S.R.
1983 IBM releases PC DOS version 2.0
1983 President Reagan calls the U.S.S.R. an "Evil Empire"
1981 "Shakespeare's Cabaret" closes at Bijou Theater New York City after 54 performances
1981 Dennis Lillee ct by Qld 12th man Dennis Lillie in Shield game
1981 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Arizona Copper Golf Classic
1980 Greg Chappell 235 and Yallop 172, for 217 stand at Faisalabad
1980 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Retro History For The Decade 1970

1979 1st extraterrestrial volcano discovered on Io, a satellite of Jupiter
1979 5th People's Choice Awards
1979 China withdraws invasion troops from Vietnam
1979 Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) transported 38 miles overland from Palmdale
1977 Henry L. Marsh III elected mayor of Richmond
1977 Princess Anne announces she's expecting her 1st child (Peter)
1976 1,774 kg (largest observed) stony meteorite falls in Jilin, China
1975 Royal Canadian Mint announces branch opening in Winnipeg Manitoba
1974 Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris
1973 Eisenhower Tunnel, world's highest/U.S. longest, opens
1973 Paul and Linda McCartney are fined 100 pounds for growing cannabis
1973 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 1st airship flown over Britain in 20 years (Europa)
1972 1st flight of the Goodyear blimp
1971 Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali in 15, retains heavyweight boxing title
1971 Milwaukee Bucks win their 20th straight NBA game (team record)
1971 Radio Hanoi broadcasts Jimi Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner"
1970 WTCI TV channel 45 in Chattanooga, Tennessee (PBS) begins broadcasting

Retro History For The Decade 1960

1969 Marriage of 12 year old Marcella Rosciglione in Palermo
1968 6 year old Tommy Moore scores hole-in-one in golf (Hagerstown, Maryland)
1968 Fillmore East opens
1968 Students demonstrate in Warsaw
1967 New Orleans Saints begin selling season tickets (20,000 sold 1st day)
1966 "Golden Boy" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 569 performances
1966 An IRA bomb destroyed Nelson's Column in Dublin
1966 Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
1965 1st U.S. combat forces arrive in Vietnam (3,500 Marines)
1964 Malcolm X leaves Black Muslim Movement
1963 Syrian Arab Rep Revolution Day - Military coup in Syria
1962 Beatles, with Pete Best, TV debut (perform "Dream Baby" on BBC)
1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1961 Jean Kerr's "Mary, Mary," premieres in New York City
1961 U.S. nuclear submarine Patrick Henry arrives at Scottish naval base of Holy Loch from South Carolina in a record underseas journey of 66 days 22 hours
1960 "Greenwillow" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 95 performances

Retro History For The Decade 1950

1959 Groucho, Chico and Harpo's final TV appearance together
1959 KUAT TV channel 6 in Tucson, Arizona (PBS) begins broadcasting
1959 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
1959 Pro-Egyptian coup fails in Mosul Iraq
1958 Silky Sullivan comes from 40 lengths back to win by 3 at Santa Anita
1958 William Faulkner says U.S. school degenerated to become babysitters
1957 1st performance of David Diamond's 6th Symphony in Boston
1957 Israeli troops leave Egypt; Suez Canal re-opened for minor ships
1957 U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test
1953 "Two's Company" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 90 performances
1953 Census indicates 239,000 farmers gave up farming in last 2 years
1953 KSWO TV channel 7 in Lawton, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 Patty Berg wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
1953 WFMJ TV channel 21 in Youngstown, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1952 Antoine Pinay forms French government
1952 Ronald Reagan marries Nancy Davis
1951 International Table Tennis Federation bans Egypt (for refusing to play Israel)
1950 1st woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel (BR Walters)
1950 Marshall Voroshilov of U.S.S.R. announces they developed atomic bomb

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1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped

1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, New Mexico on March 4, 1977.




Retro History for March 4 The 50s 60s 70s 80s

Retro History For The Decade 1980

1989 Actress Phoebe Cates marries actor Kevin Kline
1989 Eastern Airlines machinists strike
1989 Javier Sotomayor high jumps indoor world record (2.43m)
1986 Border completes twin Test tons (140 and 114*) vs. New Zealand
1985 STS-51-E vehicle rolls back to Vandenberg AFB; mission cancelled
1985 Virtual ban on leaded gas ordered by EPA
1985 War veterans returned to the "Bridge over the River Kwai"
1984 Nancy Lopez wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational
1984 Pee Wee Reese and Rick Ferrell elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1982 2nd double hat trick in Islander history-Bossy and D Potvin
1982 NASA launches Intelsat V
1980 40th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
1980 Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins parliamentary election in Zimbabwe

Retro History For The Decade 1970

1979 "Grand Tour" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 61 performances
1979 200th episode of "All in the Family"
1979 Sally Little wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
1979 U.S. Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings
1978 Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue
1977 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, New Mexico
1977 Colin Croft takes 8-29 against Pakistan at Port-of-Spain
1977 Earthquake in Romania, kills 1,541
1976 John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes at Toledo, Ohio
1976 San Francisco Giants are bought for $8 million by Bob Lurie and Bud Herseth
1974 David Hares' "Knuckle," premieres in London
1974 Harold Wilson replaces resigning Ed Heath as British premier
1973 15th Grammy Awards: 1st Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America
1972 Erhard Keller (Germany) skates world record 1000m (1:18.5)
1972 Last train run between Penrith to Keswick United Kingdom
1972 Libya and U.S.S.R. signs cooperation treaty
1971 "City Command" kidnaps 4 U.S. military men at Ankara, Turkey
1970 French submarine "Eurydice" explodes
1970 Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to avg 100+ pts per game
1970 New York Rangers set then NHL record of 126 games without being shut-out

Retro History For The Decade 1960

1968 Joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. announces plans for Poor People's Campaign
1968 Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched
1967 Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by Towler and Ford (GRB)
1967 Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Belousova and Protopopov (U.S.S.R.)
1967 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Emmerich Danzer (AUT)
1967 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Vienna won by Peggy Fleming (U.S.)
1966 Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing at Tokyo, 64 die
1966 John Lennon, says "We (the Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"
1966 North Sea Gas was 1st pumped ashore by British Petroleum
1965 David Attenbrough became the new controller of BBC2
1964 Jimmy Hoffa convicted of jury tampering
1962 AEC announces 1st atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation
1961 Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as Secretary-General of NATO
1960 French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100
1960 Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz

Retro History For The Decade 1950

1959 U.S. Pioneer IV misses Moon and becomes 2nd (U.S. 1st) artificial planet
1955 1st radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent
1954 J. E. Wilkins, appointed 1st Black U.S. sub-cabinet member

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February 2 - Retro History From The 50s to 80s

On February 2, 1977 Radio Shack officially begins creating TRS-80 computer



Retro Events For The Decade 1980

1989 0 degrees F (-18 degrees C) or below in 15 U.S. states
1989 FW de Klerk replaces Botha as South Africa's National Party leader
1989 NL announces Yankees' broadcaster Bill White will be 1st black president
1988 David Boon's 6th Test Cricket century, 184* vs. England at Sydney
1987 Kansas City Royal pitcher Dennis Leonard (3X 20 game winner), retires
1987 Philippines adopts constitution
1986 "Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood" closes at Ritz New York City after 13 performances
1986 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
1986 Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India
1986 NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 28-24
1986 Oscar Arias Sanchez elected president of Costa Rica
1985 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
1984 8th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards
1984 Lebanese army fight in Beirut
1983 Chicago Absp Joseph L. Bernardin is among 18 new cardinals invested
1983 Pope John Paul II names 18 new cardinals
1982 Government troops and Moslem-fundamentalists battle in Hamah Syria
1982 San Diego beats Miami 41-38 in OT after blowing a 24-0 lead
1980 FBI releases details of Abscam, a sting operation that targeted 31 elected and public officials for bribes for political favors

Retro Events For The Decade 1970

1977 Burn up of Salyut 4 Space Station (U.S.S.R.)
1977 Radio Shack officially begins creating TRS-80 computer
1977 Toronto's Ian Turnbull scores 5 goals, NHL REcord for a defenseman
1976 "Honeymooners Second Honeymoon" airs on TV
1976 "Rich Little Show," debuts on NBC-TV
1976 Roger Connor, Fred Lindstrom and ump Cal Hubbard elected to Hall of Fame
1975 Army offensive against rebels in Eritrea Ethiopia
1975 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
1975 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill
1975 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr
1974 Barbra Striesand's 1st #1 hit, "The Way We Were"
1974 Pope Paul VI encyclical "To Honor Mary"
1974 Smallest crowd at Cleveland Arena (Cavs vs Golden State-1,641)
1973 "Midnight Special" rock music show debuts on NBC-TV
1973 James R. Schlesinger, becomes 9th director of CIA
1973 Richath Helms, ends term as 8th director of CIA
1973 Test Cricket debut of Richard John Hadlee, New Zealand vs. Pakistan, Wellington
1972 Lefty Gomez, Ross Youngs and William Harridge selected for Hall of Fame
1972 Tom Stoppard's "Jumpers," premieres in London
1971 Idi Amin ousts Milton Obote to become dictator of Uganda
1970 Pete Maravich becomes 1st to score 3,000 college basketball points

Retro Events For The Decade 1960

1969 KMST TV channel 46 in Monterey-Salinas, California (CBS) begins broadcasting
1969 Stan Coveleski and Waite Hoyt are voted into baseball Hall of Fame
1968 Springer Publishers in West Berlin, bombed
1967 Bolivia adopts its constitution
1967 Formation of American Basketball Association is announced
1965 Joe Ortons "Loot," premieres in Brighton
1964 GI Joe, debuts as a popular American boy's toy
1964 Sjoukje Dijkstra (Netherlands) wins Olympic gold for figure skating
1964 Red Faber, Burleigh Grimes, Tim Keefe, Heinie Manush, John Montgomery Ward, and Miller Huggins are selected to Hall of Fame
1963 Helen Shapiro begins tour (Beatles are part of undercard)
1962 1st pole vault over 16' (4.88m) (John Uelses-16', Melrose Games)
1962 8 of 9 planets align for 1st time in 400 years
1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1961 Prince Bernhard opens new RAI building in Amsterdam
1960 Michale Eufemia sinks 625 balls in pool match without a miss

Retro Events For The Decade 1950

1959 Buddy Holly's last performance
1959 Vince Lombardi signs a 5 year contract to coach Green Bay Packers
1958 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Havana Biltmore Golf Open
1958 Syria joins Egypt in United Arab Republic
1958 WRIK (now WLUZ) TV channel 7 in Ponce, Puerto Rico (PTC) begins broadcasting
1957 "Candide" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 73 performances
1957 United Nations adopts a resolution calling for Israeli troops to leave Egypt
1956 Coasters sign with Atlantic Records
1955 1st presidential news conference on network TV, Eisenhower on ABC
1954 Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 113 pts in basketball game
1954 President Eisenhower reports detonation of 1st H-bomb, done in 1952
1954 Snow falls on Gibraltar
1951 -35 degrees F (-37 degrees C), Greensburg, Indiana (state record until 1994)
1951 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1950 "Arms and the Girl" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 134 performances
1950 1st broadcast of "What's My Line," on CBS-TV


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