Coming up in this episode…

* Italian students turn trash to cash

* Possible use for Chernobyl

* A new card game from an old computer game

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* VM: Jack Jaffe – Gear VR

On This Day In History for August 3, 2016

This is the 216th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 150 days remaining in 2016.

* It was on this date in 1492 that Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.

* That same date in 1527, The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John’s, Newfoundland.

* Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes on this date in 1678.

* Also today in 1852, Harvard University wins the first Boat Race between Yale University and Harvard. The race is also the first American intercollegiate athletic event

* The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded 116 years ago today.

* Also today in 1936, Jesse Owens wins the 100 meter dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.

* August 3, 1946, Santa Claus Land, the world’s first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States.

* Also today in 1958, The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap.

* It was 39 years ago today that The United States Senate begins its hearing on Project MKUltra.

* 39 years ago today, Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world’s first mass-produced personal computers.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

* American businessman, founded the Otis Elevator Company, Elisha Otis, born on this date in 1811

* Also born on that same date in 1900, John T. Scopes, American educator

* Born August 3, 1918 – Sidney Gottlieb the American chemist and theorist

* Author Leon Uris was born today in 1924

* Actor Tony Bennett turns 90 today

* Ukrainian-Russian general, pilot, and astronaut, Tony Bennett was born 1935

* Actor Martin Sheen is 76

* Martha Stewart is 75

* Actor, director, producer, and screenwriter John Landis is 66

* The actor who played Dennis the Menace in the 1950s TV show, Jay North is 65

* and the man who designed the games Super Smash Bros. and Kirby, Masahiro Sakurai is 46.

From the listener birthday calendar

* 03 – Johnee Bee

* 06 – Julie Tomasi

* 08 – Philippa Ballantine

* 09 – Matt Coe (WoWaddict) [1991]

* 09 – Julia Posz – (Technorama Promo)

* If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki.

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for August 3, 2016

News

* Chernobyl site

* Collection of 400 boomboxes for sale

Hacks & Strange Stories

* High school students turn trash into phone cases

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