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    On This Day in Tech History

    Stories Published August 9 Throughout History

    2024

    Historic Tech Events

    US military dropped the nuclear bomb "Fat Man" over the city of Nagasaki, Japan

    US military dropped the nuclear bomb "Fat Man" over the city of Nagasaki, Japan
    1945

    Three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, U.S. forces dropped a nuclear device (“Fat Man”) over Nagasaki, killing an estimated 74,000 people. While this event lead to an end to World War II, many of the survivors would face leukemia, cancer, or other terrible side effects from the radiation.

    Computer Pioneer Marvin Minsky was born

    Computer Pioneer Marvin Minsky was born
    1927

    Minsky has made many major contributions to computer science in the areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI), cognitive psychology, mathematics, computational linguistics, robotics, and optics.

    First Email Sent From Space

    First Email Sent From Space
    1991

    The first email message to be beamed back to Earth by astronauts on the high frontier was sent on 28 August 1991 by Shannon Lucid and James C. Adamson aboard the NASA space shuttle Atlantis. The message was composed on an Apple Macintosh Portable, and sent over the AppleLink network to Marcia Ivans at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, USA. The message text read: “Hello Earth! Greetings from the STS-43 Crew. This is the first AppleLink from space. Having a GREAT time, wish you were here,...send cryo and RCS! Hasta la vista, baby,...we'll be back!”

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