Portal:Technology/Selected anniversaries

1 January 1963 – The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a professional association focused on advancing technology, is founded
8 January 2004 – The RMS Queen Mary 2 (pictured), the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II
15 January 1910 – Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325 ft (99 m)
16 January 1969 – Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit and the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another

3 February 1966 – The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon
4 February 2004 – The online social networking service Facebook is launched by Mark Zuckerberg as "TheFaceBook"
14 February 2005 – The video-sharing website YouTube is founded by three former PayPal employees
29 February 2012 – Construction of the Tokyo Skytree (pictured), the tallest structure in Japan and second tallest structure in the world, is completed

2 March 1949 – Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.
2 March 1998 – Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft (pictured) indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice
10 March 2000 – The technology heavy NASDAQ Composite reached its highest ever value of 5,048.62, before going on 10% of its value in 10 days as part of the start of the dot-com bubble
12 March 2013 – Seagate Technology announced it was the first disk manufacturer to have cumulatively shipped two billion hard drives

2 April 1975 – Construction of the CN Tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, tops out, beginning the 553.33 metres (1,815.4 ft) tower's 34 year reign as the world's tallest free-standing structure
3 April 2010 – The first iPad (pictured) is released by Apple, Inc.
10 April 1861 – Governor of Massachusetts John Albion Andrew signs a charter incorporating the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
15 April 1912 – The RMS Titanic, at the time the world's largest ship, sinks after hitting an iceberg the night before in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history

21 May, 1844 – After seeing the samples produced by Charles Goodyear, Thomas Hancock becomes the first person to patent vulcanization of rubber
16 May, 1919 – A naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight
28 May, 1937 – German automobile manufacturer Volkswagen is founded

3 May, 2000 – The outdoor recreation activity Geocaching (logo pictured), in which players use GPS to find hidden containers, is first played

17 June 1946 – The first telephone call using the Mobile Telephone Service, a precursor to the cellular phone, is made in St. Louis, Missouri
20 June 2003 – The Wikimedia Foundation (logo pictured), the non-profit that operates Wikipedia and its sister projects, is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida
28 June 1972 – Atari, a pioneer in arcade games, home video game consoles, and home computers, is founded as Atari, Inc.
28 June 2006 – The Series of tubes speech is delivered by then-United States Senator Ted Stevens to describe the Internet and defend the Senator's opposition to network neutrality

15 July 1916 – The aerospace and defense corporation Boeing is founded by William Boeing as Pacific Aero Products Company
16 July 1945 – The Trinity nuclear test (pictured), the first ever detonation of a nuclear weapon, takes place in the Jornada del Muerto desert in New Mexico
18 July 1968 – Semiconductor chip maker Intel is founded by Gordon E. Moore, Robert Noyce, and Arthur Rock
21 July 1969 – Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the Moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission

12 August 1908 – The first Ford Model T (pictured), generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, is assembled
20 August 1989 – The O-Bahn Busway in Adelaide, the world's longest guided busway, opens
26 August 1939 – A game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds becomes the first ever Major League Baseball telecast
29 August 1949 – The nuclear arms race begins after the Soviet Union becomes the second nation to test a nuclear weapon

5 September 1977 – The space probe Voyager 1 (pictured), now the farthest man-made object from Earth, is launched
17 September 1991 – The Linux kernel, the operating system kernel used by the GNU/Linux family of Unix-like operating systems, is first released
24 September 1996 – Representatives of 71 nations sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations
29 September 1954 – The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the scientific organization that operates the Large Hadron Collider, is founded

4 October 1957 – The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite
7 October 1826 – The Granite Railway (pictured), the first railroad to use the railway turntable and the railroad switch, begins operations
8 October 2013 – Peter Higgs and Francois Englert win the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the Higgs Boson
28 October 1793 – Eli Whitney applies for a patent on the Cotton gin, dramatically altering the economy of the Southern United States

7 November 1967 – The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 is signed into law, leading to the creation of Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Public Broadcasting Service, and National Public Radio
15 November 1971 – The first commercially available microprocessor, the Intel 4004 (pictured), is announced in an advertisement in Electronic News
19 November 2006 – Wii Sports, the best selling video game of all time, is released as a launch title and pack-in game for the Nintendo Wii
23 November 1993 – National Science and Technology Council established in the US by Executive Order 12881

7 December 1972 – The Blue Marble (pictured), the most famous photograph of the Earth, is taken by the crew of the Apollo 17 mission
14 December 2004 – The Millau Viaduct, the tallest bridge in the world, near Millau, France, is officially opened
20 December 1996 – NeXT merges with Apple Computer, starting the path to Mac OS X
24 December 1968 – The crew of Apollo 8 become the first humans to orbit around the Moon, and broadcast live TV pictures of the orbit in one of the most watched programs in history