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QOTW: What is a famous movie that you cannot understand the appeal of?
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On This Day In History for June 23, 2021
This is the 174th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 191 days remaining in 2021.
It was on this date in 1810, that John Jacob Astor formed the Pacific Fur Company
It was also this date in 1860 that The United States Congress established the Government Printing Office
On June 23, 1868, Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the “Type-Writer”
Also today in 1894, The International Olympic Committee was founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin
That same date in 1926, The College Board administered the first SAT exam
On June 23, 1931, Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane
June 23, 1960, The United States Food and Drug Administration declared Enovid to be the first officially approved combined oral contraceptive pill in the world
It was on this date in 1969, that IBM announced that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry
That same date in 1994, NASA’s Space Station Processing Facility, a new state-of-the-art manufacturing building for the International Space Station, officially opened at Kennedy Space Center.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
English mathematician and computer scientist, Alan Turing, born on this date in 1912.
Also turning 101 today is Kuwaiti astronomer Saleh Ajeery.
Born June 23, 1922, American lieutenant and physicist Morris R. Jeppson.
Donn F. Eisele, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut was born on that same date in 1930.
Baron Rees of Ludlow, English cosmologist and astrophysicist, Martin Rees, born on this date in 1942.
Also turning 68 today is Armenian physicist, politician and current President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian.
American director, producer, and screenwriter, Joss Whedon is 57 today.
Listener Birthdays
25 – Mark Sheppard (Wichita, Kansas) Born 1957
25 – Jim Guckin from Philadelphia, Pa
26 – Patrick Norton
26 – Daughter of Will The Computer Guy
27 – Jordan Burkhead, daughter of Chip Burkhead from The Scotchcast
29 – Martin McKeay (Accch, this is the Big 40!)
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for June 23, 2021
If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our website and look for the Birthday Calendar link.
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QOTW: What is a famous movie that you cannot understand the appeal of?
Technorama
On This Day In History for June 23, 2021
This is the 174th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 191 days remaining in 2021.
It was on this date in 1810, that John Jacob Astor formed the Pacific Fur Company
It was also this date in 1860 that The United States Congress established the Government Printing Office
On June 23, 1868, Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the “Type-Writer”
Also today in 1894, The International Olympic Committee was founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin
That same date in 1926, The College Board administered the first SAT exam
On June 23, 1931, Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane
June 23, 1960, The United States Food and Drug Administration declared Enovid to be the first officially approved combined oral contraceptive pill in the world
It was on this date in 1969, that IBM announced that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry
That same date in 1994, NASA’s Space Station Processing Facility, a new state-of-the-art manufacturing building for the International Space Station, officially opened at Kennedy Space Center.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
English mathematician and computer scientist, Alan Turing, born on this date in 1912.
Also turning 101 today is Kuwaiti astronomer Saleh Ajeery.
Born June 23, 1922, American lieutenant and physicist Morris R. Jeppson.
Donn F. Eisele, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut was born on that same date in 1930.
Baron Rees of Ludlow, English cosmologist and astrophysicist, Martin Rees, born on this date in 1942.
Also turning 68 today is Armenian physicist, politician and current President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian.
American director, producer, and screenwriter, Joss Whedon is 57 today.
Listener Birthdays
25 – Mark Sheppard (Wichita, Kansas) Born 1957
25 – Jim Guckin from Philadelphia, Pa
26 – Patrick Norton
26 – Daughter of Will The Computer Guy
27 – Jordan Burkhead, daughter of Chip Burkhead from The Scotchcast
29 – Martin McKeay (Accch, this is the Big 40!)
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for June 23, 2021
If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our website and look for the Birthday Calendar link.
News
‘Spider apocalypse’ hits Australia covering countryside in eerie blankets of cobwebs after biblical mouse plague
Coelacanth Surprises Scientists Again—It Can Live for 100 Years
World’s First Wooden Satellite Set To Launch – Can Plywood Survive in Space?
Hacks & Strange Stories