Today in computer history: January 13
The 13th day of 2021. There are 352 days left in the year from this day.

87 years ago
Robin Milner was born, a British computer scientist who developed LCF, one of the first tools for automated theorem proving. Died March 20, 2010 (Age: 76).

43 years ago
Nate Silver was born, an American statistician, sabermetrician, psephologist, and writer of FiveThirtyEight blog.

21 years ago
Microsoft Bill Gates relinquishes his title as CEO to Microsoft President Steve Ballmer.

20 years ago
The domain wikipedia.org goes online.

7 years ago
Google announces it reached an agreement to acquire Nest for $3.2 billion.

2 years ago
The first episode of Valley of the Boom was released.
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