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The basis for Noyce's monolithic IC was the planar process, developed in early 1959 by Jean Hoerni. Noyce and Gordon Moore founded Intel in 1968 when they left Fairchild Semiconductor. [21] [28] Arthur Rock, the chairman of Intel's board and a major investor in the company, said that for Intel to succeed, the company needed Noyce, Moore and ...
1301 – King Andrew III died without any male heirs, ending the Árpád dynasty, which had ruled Hungary since the late 9th century. 1900 – Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca (poster pictured), based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
The transcontinental telegraph was completed on Oct. 24, 1861, making possible instant communication between the coasts possible for the first time. It rendered the Pony Express obsolete.
The grave of Elmer E. Ellsworth, located in Hudson View Cemetery, Mechanicville, NY Photographs show Colonel Elmer Ellsworth of Field and Staff, 11th New York Infantry Regiment; Marshall House at the corner of King and Pitt Streets, Alexandria, Virginia, the scene of the assassination of Col. Ellsworth on May 24, 1861; and Lieutenant Francis Brownell of Co.
February 26 – Godfrey Lowell Cabot, industrialist and philanthropist (died 1962) March 1 – Henry Harland, novelist and editor (died 1905) March 15 – Joseph M. Devine, 6th Governor of North Dakota from 1898 to 1899 (died 1938) March 20 – Wilds P. Richardson, U.S. Army officer (died 1929)
Alan Guebert shares parts of an essay, written by historian Ted Widmer, that examines Abraham Lincoln's 1861 Fourth of July, his first as president. Fighting had not started, but Lincoln won the ...
A. Natale Abbadia; Abbasqoli Khan Mo'tamed od-Dowleh Javanshir; Abdülmecid I; James Abercrombie (congressman) Robert Scarlett, 2nd Baron Abinger; Shimun XVII Abraham
Halford Mackinder, geographer (died 1947) Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician (died 1947) 19 February – Henry Horne, 1st Baron Horne, general (died 1929) 23 April – Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, soldier, administrator (died 1936) 12 June – William Attewell, cricketer (died 1927) 16 June – Edith Aitken, headmistress (died 1940 ...