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MORE JUNE EVENTS (continued): • Remember when boxer Mike Tyson bit off opponent Evander Holyfield’s ear? That match took place on June 28, 1997 in the third round Answer: Dell. of the pair’s heavyweight match. It was two A VERY NUMBER years after TysonLARGE had been released from a •federal Edwardpenitentiary Kasner wasafter a mathematician. 1938 serving threeInyears he was asked to come up with a name on a rape charge. After Tyson regainedforhisa very large number: the numeral one, followed heavyweight title, the bout with Holyfield was by a hundred zeros. He asked his two young scheduled. Holyfield easilywould won suggest. the first two nephews what name they rounds, which riled Tyson greatly. In the third • Nine-year-old Milton suggested a name round, Tyson spit out his mouthpiece, bit off out of the funnies. A cartoon strip character a named chunk Barney of Holyfield’s right ear and spit it out was very popular. Milton chose onto the mat. Amazingly, Tyson was only givBarney’s last name for the number. en a two-point deduction, a physician declared • Kasner announced the new name for the big Holyfield continue, and thethe fight went number incould his next book, altering spelling. on! With any sense of composure completely • Sixty years later, Larry Page and Sergey Brin gone, Tysonathen after Holyfield’s other developed new went internet search engine. Other ear, bitingengines an evensearched bigger piece. fight was search each The webpage and called off, and Tyson was disqualified, fineda ranked them according to how many times $3specific millionterm (outappeared of his $30 millionbut purse) on them, Page and and suspended for 16 months boxing. Brin designed their searchfrom engine to search for the specific term and then find outJune how 19 many • Primarily celebrated in Texas, is links there were that led back to that page, known as Juneteenth, also referred to as Freewhich resulted in a better search engine. dom Day or Emancipation Day, commemorat• They decided they needed a name that ing the end of slavery in the U.S. Even though reflected how many websites the search President Abraham Lincoln the engine was searching. They had tookissued the name Emancipation Proclamation in January, 1863, of Edward Kasner’s very large number, only the actmisspelled had littleitimpact because of they slightly,insoTexas it ended up being the small number of Union troops stationed spelled exactly the same way the cartoon character BarneyLincoln’s spelled hisorder. last name. there to enforce OnceWhat’s Genit called? at bottom ofin page) eral Robert(Answer E. Lee surrendered April, 1865, Union soldiers landed at Galveston COMPUTER FACTS that June, bearing tidings that the war waskbover and all • In 1981 Bill Gates said, “640 of memory slaves oughtwere to befree. enough for anybody.” • Moore’s Law states that computer performance doubles every 18 to 24 months, and ever since THANKS 1971,FOR this has been true. • HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple were all READING started in garages. TIDBITS! Answer: Google, from googol.
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