Coming up in this episode…

* Walter Cronkite looks to the future

* Time Traveling Politicians

* Cats

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Feedback

* Gary Lindros: I heard you talk about ET in the Star Wars movies. Have you heard about this theory?

* http://www.neatorama.com/neatogeek/2014/02/27/The-ET-Yoda-Theory/

On This Day In History for May 4, 2016

This is the 124th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 241 days remaining in 2016.

* It was on this date in 1626 that Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.

* 240 years ago today, Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.

* The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in England 157 years ago today.

* Also today in 1904, The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.

* 112 years ago today, Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England

* May 4, 1932, In Atlanta, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion

* Also today in 1953, Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.

* That same date in 1959, The 1st Annual Grammy Awards are held.

* Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attain a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending in the Strato-Lab V open gondola to 113,740 feet (34.67 km) 55 years ago today

* That same date in 1979, Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

* Also today in 1988, The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire

* It was 18 years ago today that A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

* The man who invented the piano, Bartolomeo Cristofori born on this date in 1655

* Also born May 4, 1733, French mathematician, physicist, and sailor, Jean-Charles de Borda

* Canadian trumpet player and bandleader Maynard Ferguson was born today in 1928.

* The actor who played Principal Vernon in The Breakfast Club, Paul Gleason was born on this date in 1939.

* One of the Jackson 5, Jackie Jackson is 65

* Actress Pia Zadora is 63

* And the last birthday, astronaut and engineer Michael L. Gernhardt is 60

There are also several holidays today…

* According to the United Nations, this is Anti-Bullying Day

* it’s also International Firefighters’ Day

* and of course, May the 4th be with you – it’s Star Wars Day!

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for May 4, 2016

News

* This Candidate for President Claims He’s Traveled Through Time

Listener Birthday Calendar

* 05 – Joe Mieczkowski host of Onthepodcast

* 06 – Amber Pace (not really a listener, but a mother and a wife of listeners)

* 06 – Bill Barbour

* 06 – Steve Bickle

* 08 – Curtis Parish

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