I emailed rlw who provided the calendar entry in at least 1984 and
authored the History of Programming Languages book ... He said: ``Grace
Hopper mentioned it in her keynote address at the first History of
Programming Languages Conference. And they got the name wrong (as have
I at times). HOPL book, p. 13: "It was finally given to Harry
Kahrimanian, and in May of 1953, Harry put out hid thesis at Temple
University,..."''