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In 12 September 1959, Bonanza Premiers. Bonanza is first regularly-scheduled TV program presented in color. Bonanza series tell about adventure of Cartwright family which is headed by thrice widowed patriarch Ben Cartwright (Lorne Greene). He had three son, each of them by different wife. The oldest is Adam Cartwright (Pernell Roberts), the second is Eric Cartwright (Dan Blocker), and the youngest is Joe Cartwright (Michael Landon). And the family cook is Hop Sing (Victor Sen Yung). The storyline deals with Ben and his three dissimilar sons, how they cared for one another, their neighbors and their land.

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In 11 September 2001, this tragedy happen WTC is bombing. There are many thing walking in the air about this tragedy, like it’s a conspiracy from USA itself to make right their war with terrorism. But we can’t just close eye to this tragedy, because this tragedy have high causality. The causalities were 2,974 fatalities, excluding the 19 hijackers: 246 on the four planes (from which there were no survivors), 2,603 in New York City in the towers and on the ground, and 125 at pentagon.  An additional 24 people remain listed as missing. All of the fatalities in the attacks were civilians except for 55 military personnel killed at the Pentagon. More than 90 countries lost citizens in the attacks on the World Trade Center.

My condolence for this event and i hope this will not happen again. This event show that wrong fanatism is must be cleared with more discusion with each religion, more socialization about religion, and of course increase mutual respect with other religion. Last, different is beautiful because if all the same it will become a monotone world.

in 1846 Sewing Machine is patent by Elias Howe. Elias Howe was born in 9 July 1819 and died in 3 October 1867.  He came from Spencer, Massachusetts.  He work in textile factory and then for master mechanic. He was not first person that invented the sewing machine but he was first person that had functional sewing machine. His sewing machine design is lockstitch. This design is look like below :

Howe must defend his patent in 1854, because Isaac Singer had perfected his machine and was selling it with the same lockstitch that Howe had invented. He won and earned his royalty. Howe died in Greenwood Cemetry, Brooklyn, New York.

Computer Bug Found

on 9 September 1947,

US Navy technician fixed a fault in a Harvard Mark II computer by removing a moth that was caught between the contacts of a relay in the system.

This event is often thought to be the origin of the terms, “bug” and “debug“, in reference to computer problems.

Even though use of word “bug” in other device is actually in Pall Mall Gazette from 1889

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