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What happened in history on this day: June 14?
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Personal Computer history:
- 1985 - Apple Computer announces 1200 job layoffs, one-fifth of the company.
- 1999 - Intel releases first processors made with 0.18 micron manufacturing process, 400 MHz Pentium II and Celeron processors.
- 2004 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Fairly Oddparents TV show in the US.
- A character accesses the Internet on a personal computer.
- The software says "You've got nothing!", and later "You've got tons of mail!", and "You've got committment!", references to America Online software's "You've got mail!" message.
- 2008 - In London, England, David and Richard Darling are made Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for their "services to the computer games industry". The brothers co-founded Galactic Software in 1982, and co-founded Codemasters in 1986.
Video Game history:
- 1974 - Paramount Pictures releases the film The Parallax View in the USA. The arcade game Pong appears.
- 1996 - Acclaim Entertainment releases the Mortal Kombat 3 video game for the PlayStation in Japan.
- 2004 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Fairly Oddparents TV show in the US. A character plays a "CosBox" video game system hooked up to a television.
- 2004 - Midway releases the Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy video game for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox in the US.
- 2005 - Capcom releases the Killer 7 video game for the PlayStation 2 and GameCube in the US.
- 2010 - Microsoft reveals final details of its Xbox 360 hands-free motion control system, called Kinect, with facial and voice recogmition capabilities. Code name during development was Project Natal.
- 2011 - 2K Games releases the Duke Nukem Forever video game for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in the US.
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