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Events
1865 - International Telecommunication Union was established 1874 - Universal Postal Union was established 1899 - The first International Peace Conference was held in The Hague 12 December 1901 - Marconi successfully receives first transatlantic radio transmissions 1919 - League of Nations was established under the Treaty of Versailles 24 October 1945 - The United Nations officially came into existence 13 September 1956 - IBM introduces the IBM 350 Disk File, the first hard drive 12 September 1958 - Texas Instruments, demonstrates the world's first integrated circuit 1960 - Digital Equipment introduces the first minicomputer, the PDP-1. 1977 - AT&T Bell Labs constructed and operated a prototype cellular phone system