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This user is a translator from Hebrew to English on Wikipedia:Translation.

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This user is a translator and proofreader from Hebrew to English on Wikipedia:Translation.

Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 27

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Light Vessel 95

... that Light Vessel 95 (pictured) is now a recording studio?
... that Soviet academic Lily Golden researched "officially disapproved" genres of contemporary Black music?
... that the opening scene of Yen and Ai-Lee was rewritten as a long take due to rain during filming?
... that anime singer Rei Nakashima was named after Ray Charles?
... that the Miracle in Motown was the first of three successful Hail Mary passes thrown by Aaron Rodgers in a span of 13 months?
... that in high school Anne Marie Armstrong won three state titles in volleyball, three in basketball, and four in track and field?
... that when French secret police raided Deng Xiaoping's hotel room in Billancourt, they encountered copies of the Moscow newspaper Qian Jin Bao?
... that Victoria Espinosa directed the first performance of The Public, almost 50 years after it was written?
... that aerospace engineering firm Helliwells Ltd began as a maker of fireplace accessories?

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Mary Jackson (1921–2005) was an American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and its successor, NASA. She worked at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, for most of her career. She started as a computer at the segregated West Area Computing division in 1951. In 1958, after taking engineering classes, she became NASA's first black female engineer. Jackson had earned the most senior engineering title available by 1979 and realized she could not earn further promotions without becoming a supervisor. She accepted a demotion to become a manager of both NASA's federal women's program and the affirmative action program. Her work sought to influence the career paths of women in science, engineering, and mathematics positions at NASA. Jackson is one of the leading characters in the 2016 book Hidden Figures and one of the three protagonists in the book's film adaptation, released the same year. This NASA photograph of Jackson was taken in 1979.Photograph credit: NASA; restored by Adam Cuerden

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