One of the first computer-versus-computer chess matches was won by a program from Moscow.
In 1966–67 a program from the ITEP institute played Stanford's Kotok-McCarthy program by telegraph for nine months, and won.
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- 1966 · 1970 · 1983 The Jules Rimet Trophy was stolen twice.
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- 1967 The first pulsar was jokingly named LGM-1, for 'little green men'. In 1967 Cambridge student Jocelyn Bell spotted radio pulses so regular that the team seriously checked whether they could be signals from aliens.