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1946 - ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer, unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania.
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1873 - Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1988 - Richard Feynman, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1999 - Henry Way Kendall, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
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In the future I hope you are as diligent to make note of the actual first electronic digital (binary) computer developed in 1939 at Iowa State University, as you are at perpetuating the notion that Eniac was the first by the inclusion of the modifier "general-purpose" and the exclusion that it was a decimal computer. The plans for general purpose use (and numerical integration) existed for the ABC computer, but WWII interfered with the implementation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atanasoff%E2%80%93Berry_Computer
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/jva/jva-archive.shtml
Thank you,
Best,
Randy