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On This Day In History for March 22, 2017
This is the 81st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 284 days remaining in 2017.
* It was on this date in 1508, that Ferdinand II of Aragon commissions Amerigo Vespucci chief navigator of the Spanish Empire.
* That same date in 1630, The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
* 39 years ago today, Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
* NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3 on this date in 1982.
* On March 22, 1993, The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.
* Also on March 22, 1995, Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
* Persian astronomer and mathematician, Ulugh Beg, born on this date in 1394.
* Born March 22, 1785, English scientist Adam Sedgwick.
* Chico Marx, American actor was born on that same date in 1887.
* American cartoonist, Bill Holman was born 114 years ago today.
* Born March 22, 1912, American actor Karl Malden.
* Marcel Marceau, the French mime and actor was born 94 years ago today.
* Russian colonel, pilot, and engineer, Yevgeny Ostashev was born 93 years ago today.
* Also born on that same date in 1931, Canadian actor, William Shatner.
* Also turning 86 today is American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate Burton Richter.
* American mathematician, computer scientist, and author, Rudy Rucker, born on this date in 1946.
* English director and composer, Andrew Lloyd Webber is 69 today.
* Also born on that same date in 1948, American journalist, Wolf Blitzer.
* American actress and producer, Reese Witherspoon is 41 today.
Listener birthdays
* 22 – Michael Slabodnick
* 23 – Andrew Godo
* 23 – Doug Kaye
* 23 – Steve Riekeberg a.k.a. MissingIntellect of Geek Cred
* 23 – Richard Parkman
* 25 – Nicholas St Gabriel
* 26 – Travis Tomasi
* 26 – Chuck Tomasi
* 26 – Leonard Nimoy
* 26 – Brina Baird in Hampton, VA
* 28 – Dick Balding
* If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki.
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for March 22, 2017
News
* The internet picked a T. rex as one of the new ‘Monopoly’ tokens
* The UK Just Granted the First License to Commercialize Controversial ‘Three-Parent’ Babies
Hacks & Strange Stories
* The First 3D Printed Cheese Was as Bizarre As You’d Expect
* LEGO-Compatible Tape Lets You Build Gravity-Defying Inception-Style Models | Urbanist
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