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2 things science and human progress accomplished on this date.
1912
Alan Turing, the mathematician who imagined the modern computer, was born in London. His idea of a universal machine became the foundation of computer science, and his codebreaking during the Second World War helped shorten the fighting.
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1960
The United States Food and Drug Administration approved Enovid for use as an oral contraceptive, the first birth control pill. For the first time women had a reliable, private way to decide whether and when to have children.
Source: Wikipedia
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