Doctor Adam Safran leases office space in suburban Tarzana and launches the 1Monkey. Org Project, featuring one rhesus monkey using a keyboard in an attempt to compose a Shakespearean sonnet.
Press releases are made, a press conference is held, and there is much international fanfare.
May 08 - The monkey dies from exhaustion. Doctor Safran closes the 1Monkey. May 27 - Doctor Safran applies for grant funding for his new project, 100Monkeys. Laboratory space is built in the Mission District of San Francisco, but immediately abandoned and razed for lack of parking and out of pure spite. Cost overruns increase, and there are suspicions of wastefulness and graft.