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  • QOTW: What treasures that we 100% know existed still haven’t been found?
    • On This Day In History for January 3, 2024

    This is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 363 days remaining in 2024.

    • It was on this date in 1749, that The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark’s oldest continually operating newspaper, was published.
    • It was 154 years ago today that Construction work began on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, United States.
    • January 3, 1957, The Hamilton Watch Company introduced the first electric watch.
    • It was also this date in 1977 that Apple Computer was incorporated.
    • The Mars Polar Lander was launched by NASA on this date in 1999
    • 15 years ago today, The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, was established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto.
    • January 3, 2019, Chang’e 4 made the first soft landing on the far side of the Moon, deploying the Yutu-2 lunar rover.

      • Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

      • French geographer, ethnologist, linguist, and astronomer, Antoine Thomson d’Abbadie, born on this date in 1810.
      • Charles Piazzi Smyth, Italian-Scottish astronomer and academic was born on that same date in 1819.
      • English writer, poet, and philologist, J.R.R. Tolkien, born on this date in 1892.
      • American businessman, co-founder of Intel Corporation, Gordon Moore was born 95 years ago today.
      • American director, producer, and screenwriter, created Battlestar Galactica, Glen A. Larson, born on this date in 1937.
      • Also born on that same date in 1956, American-Australian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, Mel Gibson.
      • American actress and mathematician, Danica McKellar is 49 today.
      • Swedish environmental activist, Greta Thunberg, born on this date in 2003.

        • Listener Birthdays

        • 3 – Thomas Gideon (The Command Line Podcast)
        • 6 – Steve Therrien (Canada)
        • 8 – Elvis!
        • 9 – Lingo from the Brit & Yankee pubcast

          • And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for January 3, 2024

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            • NASA spacecraft on new mission to converge with asteroid Apophis as it nears Earth
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              • Scientists had a 20-minute “conversation” with a humpback whale • Earth.com
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