April 07, 2024

Episode 738: No Joke

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On This Day In History for April 3, 2024

This is the 94th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 272 days remaining in 2024.

It was on this date in 1860, the first successful United States Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, began.

139 years ago today, Gottlieb Daimler was granted a German patent for a light, high-speed, four-stroke engine, which he used seven months later to create the world’s first motorcycle, the Daimler Reitwagen.

On April 3, 1933, was the first flight over Mount Everest, by the British Houston-Mount Everest Flight Expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston.

It was on that same date in 1973 that Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.

It was on this date in 1975, that Bobby Fischer refused to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.

It was also this date in 1981 that The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, was unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.

It was 28 years ago today that Suspected “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski was captured at his Montana cabin in the United States.

It was on this date in 2000, in the court case United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft was ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping “an oppressive thumb” on its competitors.

On April 3, 2010, Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet computer.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

German mathematician and astronomer, Michael Neander, born on this date in 1529.

William Watson, English physician, physicist, and botanist was born on that same date in 1715.

Pierre Bretonneau, the French doctor who performed the first successful tracheotomy was born 246 years ago today.

Also born on that same date in 1798, American admiral, geographer, and explorer (d.1877), Charles Wilkes.

Bud Fisher, the American cartoonist was born 139 years ago today.

American publisher, co-founded Time magazine, Henry Luce was born 126 years ago today.

Born April 3, 1909, Polish-American mathematician and academic Stanislaw Ulam.

American colonel, pilot, and astronaut, Gus Grissom was born 98 years ago today.

Bangladeshi engineer and architect, co-designed the Willis Tower and John Hancock Center, Fazlur Rahman Khan, born on this date in 1929.

American actor and comedian, Eddie Murphy is 63 today.

Listener Birthdays

4 – Brian K

4 – Joel McLaughlin (aka Gorkon)

4 – Amy Bowen

5 – Chad Davis, Jon Issler (hsteckylf)

5 – Griffin Sylvester (Ildreancipher)

5 – Martine Tysmans – citytrips, travelling, jokes… (in Dutch)

5 – Ringmaster Greg from Dancing With Elephants

6 – Trevor Litecky (future Geek)

6 – Samwise Gamgee

7 – P.C. Haring

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

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