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Vannevar Bush (1890 1974) was an American engineer, inventor, science administrato
r, policymaker and public intellectual. He is best known for his work on analog
computers, for founding Raytheon, and for the memex, an adjustable microfilm vie
wer with a structure analogous to that of the World Wide Web. He became Vice Pre
sident of MIT and Dean of the MIT School of Engineering in 1932, and president o
f the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1938. He was chairman of the Nationa
l Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and of the National Defense Research
Committee (NDRC). During World War II he was director of the Office of Scientif
ic Research and Development (OSRD), coordinating the defense activities of some
6,000 leading American scientists. As head of NDRC and OSRD, he initiated the Ma
nhattan Project, and ensured that it received top priority from the highest leve
ls of government. In 1945, he published As We May Think in which he predicted th
at "wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of ass
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itions and sexual taboos, the Praetorian Guard assassinated him and his mother J
ulia Soaemias, mutilated their bodies, and threw them in the Tiber River.
1864 A crack in the Dale Dyke Dam in Sheffield, England, caused it to fail, and
the resulting flood killed 238 people and damaged more than 600 homes.
1879 Sho Tai, the last king of the Ryukyu Kingdom, abdicated when the kingdom wa
s annexed by Japan and became Okinawa Prefecture.
1945 World War II: The Empire of Japan established the Empire of Vietnam, a shor
t-lived puppet state, with B?o ?i as its ruler.
2006 Michelle Bachelet (pictured) was inaugurated as the first female President
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