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incorporated in Mas*achusetts and AT&T was incorporated in New York. Mas*achusetts corporate laws would have limited the growth of American Bell so by reorganizing, AT&T could bypas* Mas*achusetts law by becoming the parent company of American Bell and the Bell System. Eventually AT&T would become a legalized monopoly in the United States. Station KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule Set up as a working experiment by RCA and NBC, the station was used to test if the UHF spectrum was feasible to broadcast TV. Codenamed “Operation Bridgeport,” after two-and-a-half years of successful transmission, the station was shut down. The UHF transmitter was purchased, dismantled, and reas*embled in Portland, Oregon to power the first commercial UHF station in the United States. The world’s first projected movie screening takes place at the Salon Indien at the Grand Café one of the earliest motion picture projectors in history. Thirty-three people attend at the admission price of one franc each to view 10 films at about 50 seconds each. The first film, La Sortie des ouvriers de l’usine Lumière the Lumières’ factory in Lyon by foot, by bicycle, and by car. Time Magazine awards its “Man of the Year” award to the personal computer Describing the personal computer as 1982’s “greatest influence for good or evil,” the article titled “The Computer Moves In multiplied almost indefinitely by connecting it to a network of other computers, which can be used to access electronic databases or send electronic mail. The article stated that 80% of Americans expected that “in the fairly near future, home computers will be as commonplace as television sets or dishwashers.” Beating out other candidates such as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, Time stated, “There are some occasions, though, when the most significant force in a year’s news is not a single individual but a