1972 is the answer to the question on the lips of everybody too busy to look at the source files.
The first 4 commits in GO are:
commit d82b11e4a46307f1f1415024f33263e819c222b8 Author: Brian Kernighan <[email protected]> Date: Fri Apr 1 02:03:04 1988 -0500
last-minute fix: convert to ANSI C
R=dmr
DELTA=3 (2 added, 0 deleted, 1 changed)
:100644 100644 8626b30633 a689d3644e M src/pkg/debug/macho/testdata/hello.ccommit 0744ac969119db8a0ad3253951d375eb77cfce9e Author: Brian Kernighan <research!bwk> Date: Fri Apr 1 02:02:04 1988 -0500
convert to Draft-Proposed ANSI C
R=dmr
DELTA=5 (2 added, 0 deleted, 3 changed)
:100644 100644 2264d04fbe 8626b30633 M src/pkg/debug/macho/testdata/hello.ccommit 0bb0b61d6a85b2a1a33dcbc418089656f2754d32 Author: Brian Kernighan <bwk> Date: Sun Jan 20 01:02:03 1974 -0400
convert to C
R=dmr
DELTA=6 (0 added, 3 deleted, 3 changed)
:100644 000000 05c4140424 0000000000 D src/pkg/debug/macho/testdata/hello.b
:000000 100644 0000000000 2264d04fbe A src/pkg/debug/macho/testdata/hello.ccommit 7d7c6a97f815e9279d08cfaea7d5efb5e90695a8 Author: Brian Kernighan <bwk> Date: Tue Jul 18 19:05:45 1972 -0500
hello, world
R=ken
DELTA=7 (7 added, 0 deleted, 0 changed)
:000000 100644 0000000000 05c4140424 A src/pkg/debug/macho/testdata/hello.b