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75 years ago today, on 09-September-1947, computer scientist and Navy Lieutenant Grace Hopper was running programs on Harvard's Mark II, an electro-mechanical computer that had come online earlier that year, when the machine stopped working. She inspected its innards and found that a moth had gotten stuck in one of the electro-magnetic relays. She taped it into the log book and noted that it was the "First Actual Case of Bug Being Found."
Grace Hopper went on to a long career in computer science and the Navy, retiring as a Rear Admiral in 1986. She was on the team that created COBOL.
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