December 18 –
Epimetheus, another of the moons of Saturn, is discovered, but mistaken for
Janus which shares its orbit and they are not distinguished until
1978.
The first live specimen of a
mountain pygmy possum (Burramys parvus),
Australia's only truly hibernating
marsupial, previously known only from the fossil record, is discovered.[3]
September 1 – While waiting at a bus stop
Ralph H. Baer, an inventor with
Sanders Associates in the United States, writes a four-page document that lays out the basic principles for creating a video game to be played on a television: the beginning of a multibillion-dollar industry.
Euler's sum of powers conjecture is disproven by
L. J. Lander and
T. R. Parkin when, through a direct computer search on a
CDC 6600, they have found the counterexample 275 + 845 + 1105 + 1335 = 1445. Their paper[8] announcing the result is one of the shortest published scientific articles ever published.
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