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July 01, 2005
Today in History - July 1 - Special Canada Day Edition
Posted by Ernest Miller
July 1
Special Canada Day Edition
1646 - Birth of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher (d. 1716)
In addition to his famous independent discovery of the calculus, and the notation we use today, Leibniz constructed the first mechanical calculator capable of multiplication and division. He also developed the modern form of the binary numeral system, which we use in digital computers.
1867 - Establishment of the Dominion of Canada, later designated Canada Day
Given that Canada is considering significant changes to its copyright law, I thought it worth mentioning. See Michael Geist for more on this issue.
1878 - Canada joins the
Universal Postal Union.
The Universal Postal Union is the international treaty organization that governs the sending of international mail between members. Before it, one might have to actually use stamps of several countries in order to send a letter to another country. The UPU is an early example of a standards setting body for an international communications network comprised of various national networks, aka postal services.
1881 - World's first international telephone call, between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, USA.
1890 - Canada and Bermuda linked by telegraph cable.
1899 - Birth of Thomas A. Dorsey, father of gospel music (d. 1993)
He founded the first gospel music publishing house.
1958 - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
1966 - First colour television transmission in Canada, from Toronto.
2005 - Microsoft plans to end official support of Windows 2000
Too bad copyright law will keep anyone else from supporting it either.
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Ernest Miller pursues research and writing on cyberlaw, intellectual property, and First Amendment issues. Mr. Miller attended the U.S. Naval Academy before attending Yale Law School, where he was president and co-founder of the Law and Technology Society, and founded the technology law and policy news site LawMeme. He is a fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
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