June 17, 1955 the first flight of the Soviet jet Tu–104. This plane was designed on the basis of TU–16, and the use of civil aviation meant some design changes. So, for a larger capacity has been increased diameter of the fuselage, and the wing was moved down. The wing itself remained unchanged, as well as the empennage, and landing gear.
Tu–104 in the Stockholm Arlanda airport
Serial production of the aircraft began immediately after the successful test flights. And the first serial Tu–104 took to the air on 5 November 1956. After 10 months, the aircraft made its first regular flight on the route Moscow — Omsk — Irkutsk. However, the history of the Tu–104 was short-lived – liner was produced only until 1960. Only three factories (Kharkov, Omsk and Kazan) was released 201 instance.
17 June 1988, Microsoft released MS-DOS 4.0, which was the first operating system containing a graphical user interface with mouse control.
MS-DOS 4.0 Shell interface
However, this was an experimental version that never went to mass selling. Its main innovation was the preemptive multitasking real-time processors 8086. But in the commercial version of MS-DOS 4.0, which was released in July of the same year, this function was abolished.
June 17, 2003 in Manhattan, new York witnessed its first flash mob. About 100 people organized in the group through blog posts and SMS messages, went to the furniture Department store Macy’s and surrounded a rug with the inscription LOVE for 10.000$. Each of the participants in the conversation with the vendors and consultants were presented to a member of the community free love and wanted to buy a carpet. However, it has not been sold, and 10 minutes later the participants dispersed, leaving the store in disbelief.
Flashmob dance, hosted by Cathay Pacific
Information about successful flash mob quickly scattered around the world and throughout the year these events began to occur in almost all countries. The second documented the flash mob event was in Rome, held July 24, in which 300 participants went to a bookstore and asked the non-existent books, and then silently applauded and left. And now the flash mobs organize even major companies with strict rules, using videos and photos as viral content.