Science on the 1st of July 1980 in history

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Date	Type	Text
01 Jul 1980 Microsoft	science	Microsoft (computer science) Microsoft's Bill Gates agrees to create an operating system for the new IBM Personal Computer. In September, David Bradley becomes one of the "original 12" engineers working on the project (under Don Estridge) and is responsible for the ROM BIOS code and for developing the Control-Alt-Delete command.	0
01 Jul 1980 C. P. Snow	science	death C. P. Snow C. P. Snow (b. 1905), English physicist and novelist.	0

30th June 1980 2nd July 1980

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