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In 1937, Howard Aiken, a mathematician at Harvard University, developed the idea for a general-purpose electromechanical computer, the Harvard Mark I.

SQUACCO H[ERON]. … This is an elegant ſpecies, and inhabits the bays of the Caſpian Sea, and the ſlow ſtreams of the ſouthern Deſert. It is alſo met with in Italy, about Bologna, where it is called Sguacco, and is ſaid to be a bold and courageous bird.

In another the Mets were shellacked, 9-1, with a stray ninth-inning home run by Strawberry after two outs, preventing a shutout.