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2 things science and human progress accomplished on this date.
1944
IBM unveiled the Harvard Mark I, one of the first machines that could run through a long sequence of calculations automatically. It pointed the way toward the computers we rely on today.
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1962
President Kennedy awarded Frances Oldham Kelsey a top civilian honor for refusing to approve thalidomide, sparing American families the birth defects it caused abroad. Her caution reshaped modern drug safety.
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