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Science on the 30th of November 1978 in history

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Date	Type	Text
30 Nov 1978 Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific	science	Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (astronomy and space ) Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific given for the first time.	0
30 Nov 1978 Baden Powell	science	Baden Powell (biology) Baden Powell publishes New Zealand Mollusca.	0
30 Nov 1978 VisiCalc	science	VisiCalc (computer science) VisiCalc becomes the first spreadsheet program.	0
30 Nov 1978 US Federal Government	science	US Federal Government (computer science) The US Federal Government releases the initial, draft version of Ada (programming language), a strongly typed, comb-structured language with exception handlers, for embedded systems.	0
30 Nov 1978 Robert Gwyn Macfarlane	science	Robert Gwyn Macfarlane (history of science) Robert Gwyn Macfarlane publishes Howard Florey: The Making of a Great Scientist.	0
30 Nov 1978 Monstrous moonshine	science	Monstrous moonshine (mathematics) 'Monstrous moonshine': John Conway and Simon P. Norton prove there is a connection between the Monster group M and the j-function in number theory.	0
30 Nov 1978 Sudoku	science	Sudoku (mathematics) The first modern Sudoku, known as Number Place, appears in Dell Pencil Puzzles and Word Games (United States), devised by Howard Garns.	0
30 Nov 1978 Polio	science	Polio (medicine) The last naturally occurring cases of Polio are reported in the United States.	0
30 Nov 1978 protein	science	protein (medicine) Tumor protein p53 is identified by Lionel Crawford, David Lane, Arnold J. Levine and Lloyd J. Old.	0
30 Nov 1978 Turing Award	science	Turing Award (awards) Turing Award – Kenneth E. Iverson	0

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