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BASIC celebrates 40th Birthday April 30, 2004

At 4 a.m. on May 1, 1964 BASIC has been born and marked beginning of personal computing. Year before (1963) two Dartmouth’s College professors, Thomas Kurtz and John Kemeny, had an idea to create computer language that would be easy to use, but strong enough to make use of ‘63 computers - that idea produced BASIC.

Many of today’s computer languages have roots in BASIC most notable is Visual Basic (which obviously has similar name), but also some other languages such as Java use same principles like original BASIC.

You can read more about BASIC birthday in an article: BASIC Computer Language Turns 40. In addition, you might want to look at Wikipedia entry on BASIC.