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On This Day In History for September 26, 2018

This is the 269th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 96 days remaining in 2018.

* It was on this date in 1580, that Sir Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth.

* It was 113 years ago today, that Albert Einstein published his first paper on the special theory of relativity.

* That same date in 1914, The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.

* It was 85 years ago today, As gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrenders to the FBI, he shouts out, “Don’t shoot, G-Men!”, which becomes a nickname for FBI agents.

* Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched on this date in 1934.

* Also on September 26, 1960, In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.

* That same date in 1969, Abbey Road, the last recorded album by The Beatles, is released.

* September 26, 1973, Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.

* It was 41 years ago today, that The first reactor Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is completed and the power plant opens for official usage, the first nuclear power plant in the (then) Ukrainian SSR.

* It was also this date in 1983 that Soviet nuclear false alarm incident: Military officer Stanislav Petrov identifies a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike.

* September 26, 2005, The PBS Kids Channel is shut down and replaced by a joint network with Comcast called Sprout.

* 10 years ago today, Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

* American gardener and environmentalist, Johnny Appleseed, born on this date in 1774.

* Théodore Géricault, the French painter and lithographer was born 227 years ago today.

* American photographer and activist, Lewis Hine, born on this date in 1874.

* Barnes Wallis, the English scientist and engineer, invented the Bouncing bomb was born 131 years ago today.

* T. S. Eliot, English poet, playwright, critic, Nobel Prize laureate was born on that same date in 1888.

* Born September 26, 1898, American pianist and composer George Gershwin.

* American fitness expert, Jack LaLanne, born on this date in 1914.

* Jean Hoerni, Swiss physicist, inventor and businessman was born on that same date in 1924.

* Robert Cade, the American physician and educator, co-invented Gatorade was born 91 years ago today.

* Also born on that same date in 1948,  English-Australian singer-songwriter and actress, Olivia Newton-John.

* American actress, Linda Hamilton, born on this date in 1956.

Listener Birthdays

* 9/26 – Brett (from Wales)

* 10/1 = 101 & Stephen Wesche (From Saint Louis Missouri) (Pronounced Like the first part of the word “Wet” and the word “She”)

* 02 – Adam Rumpke

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On This Day In History for September 19, 2018

This is the 262nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 103 days remaining in 2018.

* It was on this date in 1676, that Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon’s Rebellion.

* That same date in 1778, The Continental Congress passes the first United States federal budget.

* It was on this date in 1796, that George Washington’s Farewell Address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.

* On September 19, 1852, Annibale De Gasparis discovers in Naples the asteroid Massalia from the north dome of the Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte.

* September 19, 1879, The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.

* 66 years ago today, The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.

* Also on September 19, 1957, First American underground nuclear bomb test (part of Operation Plumbbob).

* Also today in 1970, The first Glastonbury Festival is held, at a farm belonging to Michael Eavis.

* It was 36 years ago today, that Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons

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On This Day In History for August 29, 2018

This is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 124 days remaining in 2018.

* It was on this date in 708, that Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).

* On August 29, 1831, Michael Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction.

* It was also this date in 1885 that Gottlieb Daimler patents the world’s first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.

* On August 29, 1898, The Goodyear tire company is founded.

* That same date in 1949, Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.

* It was on this date in 1965, that The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic Ocean.

* That same date in 1982, The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.

* It was 21 years ago today, that Netflix is launched as an internet DVD rental service.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

* English physician and philosopher, John Locke, born on this date in 1632.

* Polish mathematician and astronomer, Jan Śniadecki was born 262 years ago today.

* Born August 29, 1876, American engineer and businessman, founded Delco Electronics Charles F. Kettering.

* Otis Boykin, American inventor and engineer was born on that same date in 1920.

* Richard Attenborough, the English actor, director, and producer was born 95 years ago today.

* American captain and politician, John McCain is 82 today.

* Also born on that same date in 1938,  American actor and producer, Elliott Gould.

* James Brady, the American politician and activist, 15th White House Press Secretary was born 78 years ago today.

* English journalist and television host, Robin Leach was born 77 years ago today.

* Also born on that same date in 1943,  Canadian astrophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Arthur B. McDonald.

* Michael Jackson, the American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor was born 60 years ago today.

* Also turning 59 today is Canadian colonel, pilot, and astronaut Chris Hadfield.

Listener Birthdays

August

* 30 – Maximilian Björsten, Stockholm Sweden

* 31 – Tim Downing

September

* 01 – David Kloempken

* 02 – Scott Tyler

* 05 – Ben Vaughan (benvon) [1977]

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On This Day In History for August 22, 2018

This is the 234th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 131 days remaining in 2018.

* It was on this date in 1770, that James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, and claims the east coast of Australia for Britain as New South Wales.

* It was also this date in 1780 that James Cook’s ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).

* August 22, 1849, The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice.

* The first America’s Cup is won by the yacht America on this date in 1851.

* On August 22, 1864, Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention.

* Also today in 1902, Cadillac Motor Company is founded.

* It was on this date in 1902, that Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.

* It was 55 years ago today, that X-15 Flight 91 reaches the highest altitude of the X-15 program (107.96 km (67.08 mi) (354,200 feet)).

* Also today in 2006, Grigori Perelman is awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture in mathematics but refuses to accept the medal.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

* French physicist and mathematician, developed pressure cooking, Denis Papin, born on this date in 1647.

* English engineer, Henry Maudslay was born 247 years ago today.

* James Hillier, the Canadian-American scientist, co-designed the electron microscope was born 103 years ago today.

* Ray Bradbury, American science fiction writer and screenwriter was born on that same date in 1920.

* Born August 22, 1929, Russian anthropologist and author Valery Alekseyev.

* Also turning 86 today is American engineer, colonel, and astronaut Gerald P. Carr.

* American general and engineer, Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. was born 84 years ago today.

* Also turning 82 today is German roller coaster designer and engineer, designed the maverick roller coaster Werner Stengel.

* English physicist and academic, Roger Cashmore, born on this date in 1944.

* Also born on that same date in 1947, American actress and producer, Cindy Williams.

* English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer, Roland Orzabal is 57 today.

* American R&B/soul singer, James DeBarge, born on this date in 1963.

Listener birthdays

* 22 – Zoidberg [1967]

* 22 – Kyle Slingo

* 22 – AlchemyDragon

* 24 – Kira Fiore (Krazy Joe & Christine’s daughter)

* 25 – David “Grizzly” Smith from Grizzly’s Growls podcasts

* 27 – Chuck’s forgotten iPod

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On This Day In History for August 8, 2018

This is the 220th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 145 days remaining in 2018.

* It was on this date in 1576, that The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe’s Uraniborg observatory is laid on the island of Hven.

* August 8, 1585, John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search of the Northwest Passage.

* Also today in 1786, Mont Blanc on the French-Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.

* Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph on this date in 1876.

* 110 years ago today, Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers’ first public flight.

* August 8, 1929, The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.

* On August 8, 1946, First flight of the Convair B-36, the world’s first mass-produced nuclear weapon delivery vehicle, the heaviest mass-produced piston-engined aircraft, with the longest wingspan of any military aircraft, and the first bomber with intercontinental range.

* It was 55 years ago today, the Great Train Robbery: In England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal £2.6 million in bank notes.

* It was also this date in 1969 that At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the iconic photo that becomes the cover image of the Beatles’ album Abbey Road.

* It was 49 years ago today, that The Manson Family commits the Tate murders.

* President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day on this date in 1974.

* It was also this date in 1989 that Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission: Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.

* 18 years ago today, Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

* American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Ernest Lawrence, born on this date in 1901.

* Paul Dirac, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born on that same date in 1902.

* English animator and producer, John David Wilson was born 99 years ago today.

* Richard Anderson, the American actor and producer was born 92 years ago today.

* Also born on that same date in 1931, English physicist, mathematician, and philosopher, Roger Penrose.

* American director, producer, and screenwriter, Donald P. Bellisario is 83 today.

* Also turning 81 today is American actor and director Dustin Hoffman.

* English chemist and academic, Jack Baldwin is 80 today.

* Also born on that same date in 1948, Russian engineer and astronaut, Svetlana Savitskaya.

* American actor, Keith Carradine is 69 today.

* American actor and director, Don Most, born on this date in 1953.

* Also turning 57 today is British-Irish musician, singer and songwriter The Edge.

Listener Birthdays

* 08 – Philippa Ballantine

* 09 – Matt Coe (WoWaddict) [1991]

* 09 – Julia Posz – (Technorama Promo)

* 10 – Sam Martin

* 11 – Steve Wozniak

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On This Day In History for August 1, 2018

This is the 213rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 152 days remaining in 2018.

* It was on this date in 1498, that Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.

* 244 years ago today, British scientist Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.

* It was on this date in 1834, that Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.

* On August 1, 1855, The first ascent of Monte Rosa, the second highest summit in the Alps.

* Henry Perky patents shredded wheat on this date in 1893.

* 111 years ago today, The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.

* That same date in 1911, Harriet Quimby takes her pilot’s test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator’s certificate.

* It was also this date in 1936 that The Olympics opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler.

* August 1, 1957, The United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).

* The Concert for Bangladesh, organized by former Beatle George Harrison, is held at Madison Square Garden in New York City on this date in 1971.

* 37 years ago today, MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, “Video Killed the Radio Star” by The Buggles.

* It was on this date in 1984, that Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, England.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

* American soldier, explorer, and politician, 4th Governor of Missouri Territory, William Clark, born on this date in 1770.

* Born August 1, 1779, American lawyer, author, and poet Francis Scott Key.

* American astronomer and academic, Maria Mitchell, born on this date in 1818.

* Born August 1, 1819, American novelist, short story writer, and poet Herman Melville.

* Walter Gerlach, German physicist and academic was born on that same date in 1889.

* American actor, singer, director, and producer, Dom DeLuise was born 85 years ago today.

* Yves Saint Laurent, Algerian-French fashion designer, co-founded Yves Saint Laurent was born on that same date in 1936.

* Born August 1, 1942, American singer-songwriter and guitarist Jerry Garcia.

* Also turning 72 today is American colonel, pilot, and astronaut Richard O. Covey.

* Japanese astronaut and engineer, Koichi Wakata is 55 today.

* Also turning 39 today is American actor, director, and producer Jason Momoa.

Listener Birthdays

* 04 – Clark & Diana (Awesome people and the kids of Gary from Jacksonville)

* 06 – Julie Tomasi

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On This Day In History for July 11, 2018

This is the 192nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 173 days remaining in 2018.

* It was on this date in 1405, that Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time.

* Also today in 1576, Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.

* Also on July 11, 1735, Mathematical calculations suggest that it is on this day that dwarf planet Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune for the last time before 1979.

* It was on this date in 1796, that The United States takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.

* That same date in 1801, French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.

* July 11, 1848, Waterloo railway station in London opens.

* 129 years ago today, Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.

* July 11, 1893, The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.

* Brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology to scientists on this date in 1895.

* 121 years ago today, Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.

* To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published, in the United States on this date in 1960.

* Also on July 11, 1962, Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.

* It was also this date in 1962 that First transatlantic satellite television transmission.

* On July 11, 1972, The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.

* 41 years ago today, Martin Luther King, Jr. is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

* Also today in 1979, America’s first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.

* PTV is introduced as a kids programming block for PBS to broadcast educational programming to underprivileged children on this date in 1994.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

* Swedish chemist and mineralogist, Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, born on this date in 1709.

* American astronomer and author, Isabel Martin Lewis was born 137 years ago today.

* Alexander Prokhorov, the Australian-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born 102 years ago today.

* Venetia Burney, English educator, who named Pluto was born on that same date in 1918.

* Brazilian physicist and academic, César Lattes was born 94 years ago today.

* American-Canadian physicist and engineer, Theodore Maiman, born on this date in 1927.

* Italian physicist and academic, Tullio Regge was born 87 years ago today.

* Also turning 84 today is Italian fashion designer, founded the Armani Company Giorgio Armani.

* Pakistani physicist and academic, Pervez Hoodbhoy is 68 today.

Listener Birthdays

* 11 – Steven Truax (rednecktech)

* 12 – Shadowbird712 of Shadowbird Studios (http://shadowbirdsrandomcrap.

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On This Day In History for July 4, 2018

This is the 185th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 180 days remaining in 2018.

* It was on this date in 1054, that A supernova, called SN 1054, is seen by Chinese Song dynasty, Arab, and possibly Amerindian observers near the star Zeta Tauri. For several months it remains bright enough to be seen during the day. Its remnants form the Crab Nebula.

* The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people on this date in 1803.

* It was also this date in 1817 that In Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canal begins.

* On July 4, 1837, Grand Junction Railway, the world’s first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.

* It was on this date in 1845, that Henry David Thoreau moves into a small cabin on Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau’s account of his two years there, Walden, will become a touchstone of the environmental movement.

* It was also this date in 1855 that The first edition of Walt Whitman’s book of poems, Leaves of Grass, is published In Brooklyn.

* On July 4, 1862, Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that would grow into Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels.

* Also today in 1886, The first scheduled Canadian transcontinental train arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia.

* Also on July 4, 1892, Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, causing Monday (July 4) to occur twice, resulting in a year with 367 days.

* It was 126 years ago today, that The first double-decked street car service was inaugurated in San Diego, California.

* It was also this date in 1914 that The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie takes place in Vienna, six days after their assassinations in Sarajevo.

* Also today in 1927, First flight of the Lockheed Vega.

* It was also this date in 1934 that Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design that would later be used in the atomic bomb.

* Also on July 4, 1951, William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor.

* 57 years ago today, On its maiden voyage, the Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-19 suffers a complete loss of coolant to its reactor. The crew are able to effect repairs, but 22 of them die of radiation poisoning over the following two years.

* It was also this date in 1997 that NASA’s Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.

* Also today in 1998, Japan launches the Nozomi probe to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.

* It was 13 years ago today, that The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.

* On July 4, 2012, The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

* French inventor, best known as a pioneer in balloon flight, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, born on this date in 1753.

* George Everest, the Welsh geographer and surveyor was born 228 years ago today.

* American novelist and short story writer, Nathaniel Hawthorne was born 214 years ago today.

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On This Day In History for June 27, 2018

This is the 178th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 187 days remaining in 2018.

* It was on this date in 1895, that The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.

* It was also this date in 1898 that The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.

* On June 27, 1971, After only three years in business, rock promoter Bill Graham closes Fillmore East in New York, the “Church of Rock and Roll”.

* 36 years ago today, Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.

* It was 5 years ago today, that NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

* French astronomer and academic, Alexis Bouvard, born on this date in 1767.

* Augustus De Morgan, the English mathematician and logician was born 212 years ago today.

* Paul Mauser, German weapon designer, designed the Gewehr 98 was born on that same date in 1838.

* Born June 27, 1872, American astronomer Heber Doust Curtis.

* Helen Keller, American author, academic, and activist was born on that same date in 1880.

* Juan Trippe, the American businessman, founded Pan American World Airways was born 119 years ago today.

* American pool player, Willie Mosconi was born 105 years ago today.

* American businessman and politician, Ross Perot, born on this date in 1930.

* Also turning 81 today is American physicist and astronaut Joseph P. Allen.

* American director, producer, and screenwriter, J.J. Abrams, born on this date in 1966.

* American actor, Tobey Maguire is 43 today.

Listener Birthdays

* 27 – Jordan Burkhead, daughter of Chip Burkhead from The Scotchcast

* 29 – Martin McKeay (Accch, this is the Big 40!)

* 30 – Alexis Duran (ADdude)

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