Today in computer history: June 16th

Below are technology and computer-related events that happened on June 16th of every year during the evolution of computers. June 16th is the 168th day of 2024, which is a leap year. There are 198 days left in the year from this day.

IBMJune 16, 1911
113 years ago

IBM was founded.

John Tukey pictureJune 16, 1915
109 years ago

John Tukey was born, an American statistician best known for the development of the FFT algorithm and box plot. Died July 26, 2000 (Age: 85).

CompanyJune 16, 1977
47 years ago

Oracle was founded by Larry Ellison, Robert Miner, and Ed Oates.

MicrosoftJune 16, 1983
41 years ago

The MSX computer architecture was announced by Microsoft.

CompanyJune 16, 1994
30 years ago

Geek Squad was founded.

AmazonJune 16, 2017
7 years ago

Amazon announced it had entered a definite merger agreement with Whole Foods market, Inc. for $13.7 billion.

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