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* Clothing optional restaurant

* Cracker Jack changes

* How much cheap network equipment really costs

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* Mike Robison

* Sporadic downloader / listener.

* Gilligan’s Island: Mary Ann, don’t know where all Ginger has been.

* Dr Demento song: Deteriorata by National Lampoon.

* First CD: Men at Work “Cargo”

On This Day In History for April 27, 2016

April 27 is the 118th in the Gregorian calendar. There are 248 days remaining until the end of the year.

* It was on this date in 1521 during the Battle of Mactan, Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu.

* The blind and impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10 on this date in 1667.

* That same date in 1749, First performance of George Frideric Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks in Green Park, London.

* It was 206 years ago today that Beethoven composes Für Elise.

* American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus 155 years ago today.

* Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day on this date in 1967.

* April 27, 1981, Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.

* 14 years ago today, The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10.

* April 27, 2005, The superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France.

* Construction begins on the Freedom Tower (later renamed One World Trade Center) in New York City 10 years ago today.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

* French mathematician and theorist Marc-Antoine Parseval born on this date in 1755.

* Also born on this date in 1791, co-inventor of the Morse code, Samuel Morse.

* Walter Lantz, the man who brought us cartoon characters like Andy Panda and Woody Woodpecker was born today in 1899.

* Actor Jack Klugman would have been 94 today.

* Disc jockey, music historian, radio celebrity, and voice actor; co-created American Top 40, Casey Kasem was born April 27, 1932.

* Guitarist for Kiss, Ace Frehley is 64.

* Eric Schmidt, software engineer and executive chairman of Alphabet is 61.

* Sheena Easton is 57.

* and finally Russell T. Davies is 53.

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for April 27, 2016

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Listener Birthday Calendar

April

* 29 – Shepherd Thom from outside of the known universe

* 29 – Timothy Karre

* 30 – Julio Diaz (JulioTijuana)

May

* 03 – Keao Wright

* 03 – Leon

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Hacks & Strange Stories

* London “clothing optional” restaurant

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