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* Questions for us:

* Mad Marv: What are you looking forward to at this year’s DragonCon? I’m going to be taking a trip to Washington DC in August is there any place geeky I should check out in the area?
* Janet: What happened to Slice of Scifi? It used to have news about tv, movies and science etc. now it’s just reviews. Am I missing it somewhere else?



On This Day In History for March 30, 2016

This is the 90th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 276 days remaining in 2016.

* It was on this date in 1822 that The Florida Territory is created in the United States.
* 174 years ago today, Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.
* Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2-cent/acre, by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward on this date in 1867.
* That same date in 1899, German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights.
* The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets a world airspeed record of 463 mph (745km/h) on this date in 1939.
* That same date in 1939, Detective Comics #27 is released, introducing Batman.
* Also today in 1954, The Yonge Street subway line opens in Toronto. It is the first subway in Canada.
* It was 52 years ago today that Jeopardy!, hosted by Art Fleming debuts.
* 35 years ago today, U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr. Another two people are wounded at the same time.
* March 30, 1982, Space Shuttle program: STS-3 Mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

* Italian mathematician and astronomer Vincentio Rainieri born on this date in 1606.
* Born March 30, 1811, German chemist and academic Robert Bunsen.
* The 2nd officer on the RMS Titanic, Charles Lightoller was born today in 1874.
* Also born today in 1894, Russian engineer, Sergey Ilyushin, founder of the Ilyushin Aircraft Company.
* American animator, Marc Davis was born today in 1913.
* Robin M. Williams, not the actor/comedian, the New Zealand mathematician and academic, was born today in 1919.
* The man who played Gomez Adams, actor John Astin is 86 today.
* The co-founder of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, Paul Crouch was born on this date in 1934.
* Actor Warren Beatty is 79.
* That nice man from the movie Aliens, actor Paul Reiser is 59.
* and finally singer-songwriter Celine Dion is 48.

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for March 30, 2016
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Listener Birthday Calendar

March

* 30 – Tony Mast

April

* 03 – Trucker Tom Wiles
* 04 – Brian K – My Blog
* 04 – Joel McLaughlin (aka Gorkon)
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