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||1985 – The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States. | ||1985 – The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States. | ||
||Zoltán Lajos Bay (d. October 4, 1992) was a Hungarian physicist, professor, and engineer who developed technologies, including tungsten lamps and microwave devices. Pic. | |||
||2000 – Michael Smith, English-Canadian biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932) | ||2000 – Michael Smith, English-Canadian biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932) | ||
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1903: Physicist, inventor, and academic John Vincent Atanasoff born. He will invent the Atanasoff–Berry computer, the first electronic digital computer.
1947: Physicist and academic Max Planck dies. He made many contributions to theoretical physics, and earned fame as the originator of quantum theory.
1957: Clock Head 2 stops math criminals from interfering with the launch of Sputnik 1.
1957: Space Race: Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
2017: Signed first edition of The Eel Discovers Time Travel sells for five hundred thousand dollars.