The Commodore 64 was a popular home computer of the 1980s. Announced by Commodore Business Machines in January 1982 and released in August of that year at a price of US$595, it offered unprecedented value (sound and graphics performance) for the money. Aggressive pricing of the C64 by Commodore was one of the major catalysts for the video game crash of 1983. Approximately 15,000 software titles were made for the Commodore 64, including games, development tools, and office applications. It is also credited with popularizing the computer demo scene. With estimated sales between 17 and 25 million units by the time it was discontinued in 1993, the C64 became and remains the best-selling computer model of all time.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1927: The first successful talking movie The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, was released. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jazz_Singer)

1976: Premier Hua Guofeng ordered the arrest of the Gang of Four and their associates, putting an end to the Cultural Revolution in China. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_Four_%28China%29)

1981: Egyptian President Mohamed Anwar el-Sadat was assassinated while attending a parade in Cairo to mark the eighth anniversary of the Crossing of the Bar Lev Line at the start of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_Sadat)

1995: An article in the journal Nature reported the discovery of a planet orbiting 51 Pegasi as the first known extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/51_Pegasi)

_____________________ Wikiquote of the day:

Old age hath yet his honor and his toil. Death closes all; but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with gods. -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson)