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* Predictions for 2016

* Justin: We find out if VR and Augmented reality gaming is really the game changer it could be, or if it’s just another fad again.

* And a postcard from Jorge!

On This Day In History for January 13, 2016

This is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 353 days remaining in 2016.

* It was on this date in 1830 that The Great Fire of New Orleans begins.

* The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the opera Cavalleria rusticana is sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, New York on this date in 1910.

* The Candidate of Sciences degree is established in the Soviet Union 82 years ago today.

* Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car on this date in 1942.

* January 13, 1942, First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.

* That same date in 1960, The Gulag system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union is officially abolished.

* Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison on this date in 1968.

* Space Shuttle Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center on this date in 1993.

* That same date in 2000, Bill Gates resigns as CEO of Microsoft.

* The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sinks off the coast of Italy. There are 32 confirmed deaths among the 4,232 passengers and crew on this date in 2012.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to

* French astronomer and academic Félix Tisserand, born on this date in 1845.

* Born that same date in 1864, Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.

* The founder of the Fuller Brush Company, Alfred Fuller was born today in 1885.

* Also born today in 1919, actor and producer Robert Stack.

* The creator of Paddington Bear, English soldier and author Michael Bond is 90 years young today.

* Actor and director Charles Nelson Reilly would have been 85 today.

* Indian commander, pilot and astronaut Rakesh Sharma is 67.

* Happy birthday to Julia Louis-Dreyfus who turns 55.

* And finally, Legolas, actor and producer Orlando Bloom is 39.

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for January 13, 2016

News

* A stab-proof vest! Really?

* Shooting drugs just took on a whole new meaning

Listener Birthday Calendar

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* 15 – Ralph Whitfield (aka GoofyRalph)

* 17 – fuffy_frog (aka Kristina) from Canada

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* Why not nearly 1500 credit cards?

* Google Translate – almost right almost all the time

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