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The Spruce Goose is 75 years old

It flew only once, for about a half mile.

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‘The first large-scale general-purpose automatic digital computer’

The Mark 1 dedication at Harvard was on 07 August 1944.

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The United States drops a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, Japan

The US is “the first and only nation” to use a nuclear weapon. Russia is “the first state to use nuclear threats as part of a war of expansion.”