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Feedback

* Voicemail from Krazy Joe

* Voicemail from John Miller Jr.

* How many steps do you take at a time when going up stairs?

* Jorge: 1-3

* Digital Dan Hook: 2 steps at a time, since being tall

* What movie would like to forget and rewatch

* Jorge: Jurassic Park

On This Day In History for April 26, 2017

This is the 116th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 249 days remaining in 2017.

* It was on this date in 1564, that Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of actual birth is unknown).

* It was also this date in 1607 that English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.

* On April 26, 1803, Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L’Aigle, France; the event convinces European scientists that meteors exist..

* The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey on this date in 1923.

* April 26, 1933, The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.

* Also today in 1962, NASA’s Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.

* 31 years ago today, A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world’s worst nuclear disaster.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

* Emperor of Ancient Rome, Marcus Aurelius, born on this date in 121.

* British physicist, Owen Willans Richardson was born 138 years ago today.

* Rudolf Hess, German Nazi leader was born on that same date in 1894.

* German flying ace, Ernst Udet, born on this date in 1896.

* Seismologist and mathematician, Charles Francis Richter was born 117 years ago today.

* Born April 26, 1916, Leading exponent of autogyros Ken Wallis.

* Actress, comedienne, singer, dancer, writer, Carol Burnett, born on this date in 1933.

* Also turning 84 today is American physicist Arno Allan Penzias.

* English drummer and member of Duran Duran, Roger Taylor is 57 today.

* Slovenian model, wife of Donald Trump and First Lady of the United States, Melania Trump, born on this date in 1970.

* Italian ESA astronaut, Samantha Cristoforetti is 40 today.

Listener Birthdays

April

* 29 – Shepherd Thom from outside of the known universe

* 29 – Timothy Karre

* 30 – Julio Diaz (JulioTijuana)

May

* 01 – Technorama Podcast (2005)

* 03 – Keao Wright

* 03 – Leon

* 05 – Joe Mieczkowski host of Onthepodcast

* 06 – Amber Pace (not really a listener, but a mother and a wife of listeners)

* 06 – Bill Barbour

* 06 – Steve Bickle

* 08 – Curtis Parish

* 12 – Amanda Huggenkiss

* 14 – JPCJ

* 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 April 26, 2017

News

* Plastc died on the vine

* Remarkable Image Shows a Martian Crater With NASA’s Garbage Still Inside

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