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On This Day In History for March 28, 2018

This is the 87th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 278 days remaining in 2018.

It was on this date in 1776, that Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.

March 28, 1802, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid ever to be discovered.

It was 108 years ago today, that Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.

On March 28, 1933, The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool is believed to be the first airliner lost to sabotage when a passenger sets a fire on board.

Also on March 28, 1979, A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island’s Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown.

It was 28 years ago today, that United States President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

Italian painter and architect, Raphael, born on this date in 1483.

Henry Schoolcraft, the American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist was born 225 years ago today.

Joseph Bazalgette, English architect and engineer, designed the Hammersmith Bridge and Battersea Bridge was born on that same date in 1819.

Born March 28, 1836, German-American brewer, founded the Pabst Brewing Company Frederick Pabst.

Ángela Ruiz Robles, Spanish teacher, writer and inventor, pioneer of the electronic book was born on that same date in 1895.

Born March 28, 1899, American businessman Gussie Busch.

Harold Agnew, the American physicist and academic was born 97 years ago today.

Paul C. Donnelly, American scientist and engineer was born on that same date in 1923.

German-French mathematician and theorist, Alexander Grothendieck was born 90 years ago today.

American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Jerome Isaac Friedman, born on this date in 1930.

Dutch physicist and astronaut, Wubbo Ockels was born 72 years ago today.

Also born on that same date in 1986, American singer-songwriter, dancer, producer, and actress, Lady Gaga.

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for March 28, 2018

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On This Day In History for March 21, 2018

This is the 80th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 285 days remaining in 2018.

* It was on this date in 1871, that Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.

* Also today in 1925, The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee.

* It was 90 years ago today, that Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo transAtlantic flight.

* It was also this date in 1963 that Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary (in California) closes.

* NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes on this date in 1965.

* 53 years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

* Also today in 1970, The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco.

* Also on March 21, 1994, The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change enters into force.

* Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon on this date in 1999.

* It was 12 years ago today, that The social media site Twitter is founded.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

* American inventor, Mary Dixon Kies, born on this date in 1752.

* Joseph Fourier, the French mathematician and physicist was born 250 years ago today.

* Born March 21, 1839, Russian pianist and composer Modest Mussorgsky.

* American astronomer and astrophysicist, Antonia Maury, born on this date in 1866.

* George David Birkhoff, the American mathematician was born 134 years ago today.

* Jewish-Austrian mathematician, physicist, and philosopher from the Vienna Circle, Friedrich Waismann was born 122 years ago today.

* Forrest Mars, Sr., American candy maker, created M&M’s and Mars bar was born on that same date in 1904.

* American businessman, co-founded E & J Gallo Winery, Julio Gallo, born on this date in 1910.

* Born March 21, 1911, African-American scientist and inventor Walter Lincoln Hawkins.

* Russ Meyer, American director, producer, and screenwriter was born on that same date in 1922.

* Born March 21, 1927, American-German astronomer and critic Halton Arp.

* American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate, Walter Gilbert is 86 today.

* Also turning 72 today is Welsh-English actor Timothy Dalton.

* American singer-songwriter and guitarist, Eddie Money, born on this date in 1949.

* Also turning 65 today is English computer scientist and academic Steve Furber.

* Also born on that same date in 1962,  American actor, Matthew Broderick.

* American actress, producer, and talk show host, Rosie O’Donnell is 56 today.

Listener Birthdays

* 21 – “Krazy Joe” Fiore, MegaPodtastic

* 23 – Steve Riekeberg a.k.a. MissingIntellect of Geek Cred

* 23 – Richard Parkman

* 25 – Nicholas St Gabriel

* 26 – Chuck Tomasi

* 26 – Brina Baird in Hampton, VA

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On This Day In History for February 14, 2018

This is the 45th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 320 days remaining in 2018.

* It was on this date in 1076, that Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.

* It was also this date in 1530 that Spanish conquistadores, led by Nuño de Guzmán, overthrow and execute Tangaxuan II, the last independent monarch of the Tarascan state in present-day central Mexico.

* Also today in 1778, The United States flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte renders a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.

* February 14, 1779, James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.

* Also on February 14, 1835, The original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, in the Latter Day Saint movement, is formed in Kirtland, Ohio.

* Also today in 1849, In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.

* It was on this date in 1876, that Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.

* Also on February 14, 1899, Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.

* That same date in 1912, The U.S. Navy commissioned its first class of diesel-powered submarines.

* February 14, 1912, Arizona is admitted as the 48th and the last contiguous U.S. state.

* Also today in 1918, The Soviet Union adopts the Gregorian calendar (on 1 February according to the Julian calendar).

* Also on February 14, 1924, The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).

* On February 14, 1961, Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.

* It was on this date in 1990, that The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth that later become famous as Pale Blue Dot.

* The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid on this date in 2000.

* It was 13 years ago today, that YouTube is launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video sharing website in the world and a main source for viral videos.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

* German priest and mathematician, Johannes Werner, born on this date in 1468.

* American journalist and politician, invented the typewriter, Christopher Latham Sholes was born 199 years ago today.

* French astronomer and academic, Benjamin Baillaud, born on this date in 1848.

* George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., American engineer, inventor of the Ferris wheel was born on that same date in 1859.

* Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, born on this date in 1869.

* Born February 14, 1882, American actor John Barrymore.

* Katherine Stinson, the American aviator was born 127 years ago today.

* Jack Benny, American actor and producer was born on that same date in 1894.

* Born February 14, 1898, Swiss-American physicist and astronomer Fritz Zwicky.

* Jimmy Hoffa, American trade union leader was born on that same date in 1913.

* American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Herbert A. Hauptman, born on this date in 1917.

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On This Day In History for February 7, 2018

This is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 327 days remaining in 2018.

* It was on this date in 1907, that launched The Mud March – the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).

* February 7, 1940, The second full-length animated Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premieres.

* It was also this date in 1984 during Space Shuttle mission STS-41 -B, Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).

* Also on February 7, 1990,  The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly on power as part of the Dissolution of the Soviet Union.

* On February 7, 1997, NeXT merges with Apple Computer, starting the path to Mac OS X.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

* American blacksmith and businessman, founder of Deere & Company, John Deere, born on this date in 1804.

* Charles Dickens, English Novelist and critic was born on that same date in 1812.

* American author, Laura Ingalls Wilder, born on this date in 1867.

* Thomas Andrews, Irish shipbuilder and businessman, designed the RMS Titanic was born on that same date in 1873.

* G. H. Hardy, the English mathematician and geneticist was born 141 years ago today.

* Joseph Algernon Pearce, Canadian astrophysicist and astronomer was born on that same date in 1893.

* Russian engineer, founded the Antonov Aircraft Company, Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov was born 112 years ago today.

* Bill Hoest, American cartoonist was born on that same date in 1926.

* Also born on that same date in 1932,  American colonel, pilot, and astronaut, Alfred Worden.

* Also turning 83 today is American businessman and politician Herb Kohl.

* American singer-songwriter and guitarist, Garth Brooks is 56 today.

* American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, Chris Rock, born on this date in 1965.

Listener Birthdays

* 07 – Chad W. Smith from Chattanooga, TN

* 07 – Bryon the Big BS in PA, Williamsport PA

* 08 – Jan Scott from Yorkshire, UK

* 09 – “Podcast” Mike Wills from Minnesota

* 10 – Zach Akgulian – Appleton, WI

* 10 – Drace (Shari from ND)

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On This Day In History for January 31, 2018

This is the 31st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 334 days remaining in 2017.

* It was on this date in 1606, that Guy Fawkes, as part of the Gunpowder Plot, is executed for plotting against Parliament and King James.

* Also today in 1747, the first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.

* 155 years ago today, Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University.

* Also on January 31, 1930, 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.

* January 31, 1949, These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.

* It was also this date in 1950 that United States President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.

* Also today in 1958, the first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt.

* Ham the Chimp travels into outer space aboard Mercury-Redstone on this date in 1961.

* It was 51 years ago today, that The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.

* That same date in 1971, Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, liftoff for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon aboard Apollo 14.

* It was on this date in 2010, that Avatar becomes the first film to gross over $2 billion worldwide.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

* American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Theodore William Richards, born on this date in 1868.

* American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, Irving Langmuir was born 136 years ago today.

* Sofya Yanovskaya, the Russian mathematician and historian was born 121 years ago today.

* American actress, singer, and dancer, Carol Channing, born on this date in 1921.

* Born January 31, 1921, American tenor and actor Mario Lanza.

* Norman Mailer, the American journalist and author was born 94 years ago today.

* Also turning 89 today is American computer scientist and engineer Irma Wyman.

* Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born on that same date in 1929.

* American actor and producer, James Franciscus was born 83 years ago today.

* American actress, Suzanne Pleshette, born on this date in 1937.

Listener Birthdays

* 24 – Cynthia Fry

* 25 – Kreg Steppe

* 26 – Will The Computer Guy

* 27 – Mark in Memphis

* 27 – Chip Burkhead from The Scotchcast

* 29 – Sarah P. from NJ… who was born in OK, moved to VA, married Brad P, moved to NJ, and is now back in VA

* 01 – Matt Baum aka Racer X, Pittsburgh PA

* 01 – Brandon Kirkwold – MN

* 02 – Gary Lindros – aka Gary from Jacksonville – Groundhog’s Day Rules!!!

* 02 – Chuck Provenzano aka podlurker aka Chuck’s evil twin

* 02 – Oreo Cookie Monster

* 03 – Euan Campbell McGregor – Scotland, UK

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* John Noble: The Addams Family

* Mike Wills: Deadliest Catch

* Rob Riehl: Airwolf

* Joel Harper: SWAT

* Doug Schulze: A-Team

* Jack Mangan: Doctor Who, Barney Miller, Knight Rider

* Tee Morris: Star Trek

* Dan Shaurette: Highlander

* Thomas Hausmann: Hawaii Five-O or Mission Impossible

* Jonathan Strickland: Peter Gunn

* Gary Lindros: A-Team

* Krazy Joe: WKRP

* Diana Lewis Mission Impossible was the best, but Andy Griffith was the catchiest.

* Justin Diehl: Night Court

* JT Shea: Bonanza or Lone Ranger

* Rob Riehl: Original Battlestar Galactica

* Martin DeFant Ground Forces from England featuring the Black Dyke Brass Band!

* Liisa Tomasi: The Andy Griffith Show

* CJ: Bosom Buddies

On This Day In History for January 17, 2018

This is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 348 days remaining in 2018.

* It was on this date in 1773, that Captain James Cook commands the first expedition to sail south of the Antarctic Circle.

* It was also this date in 1899 that The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.

* It was on this date in 1912, that Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.

* January 17, 1917, The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.

* Also on January 17, 1929, Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by E. C. Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.

* 21 years ago today, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station: A Delta II carrying a GPS2R satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

* German physician and botanist, Leonhart Fuchs, born on this date in 1501.

* Robert Fludd, the English physician, astrologer, and mathematician was born 444 years ago today.

* Born January 17, 1706, American publisher, inventor, and politician, 6th President of Pennsylvania Benjamin Franklin.

* Polish mathematician and academic, Antoni Łomnicki, born on this date in 1881.

* Born January 17, 1886, American pilot and businessman, founded the Glenn L. Martin Company Glenn L. Martin.

* Nevil Shute, English engineer and author was born on that same date in 1899.

* American actress, game show panelist, television personality, and animal rights activist, Betty White is 96 today.

* Vidal Sassoon, English-American hairdresser and businessman was born on that same date in 1928.

* Also born on that same date in 1931,  American actor, James Earl Jones.

* American actress, puppeteer/ventriloquist, and television host, Shari Lewis, born on this date in 1933.

* Born January 17, 1949, American actor and comedian Andy Kaufman.

* Also born on that same date in 1964,  American lawyer and activist, 46th First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama.

* Also turning 48 today is Russian-American animator, director, and producer Genndy Tartakovsky.

* American singer-songwriter and actress, Zooey Deschanel, born on this date in 1980.

Listener Birthdays

* 17 – fuffy_frog (aka Kristina) originally from Canada but now from Thailand

* 21 – Michael Rabalais – Stingray42

* 22 – TAW012294

* 23 – Kathie Luke, IL

* 23 – Chris Moody from PodioMedia Chat

* 23 – Keith Lane from TGGeeks

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On This Day In History for January 10, 2018

This is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 355 days remaining in 2018.

* It was on this date in 1776, that Thomas Paine published his pamphlet Common Sense.

* On January 10, 1812, the first steamboat on the Ohio River or the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans, 82 days after departing from Pittsburgh.

* The Metropolitan Railway, the world’s oldest underground railway, opens between Paddington and Farringdon, marking the beginning of the London Underground on this date in 1863.

* January 10, 1870, John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.

* 117 years ago today, the first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.

* Also today in 1927, Fritz Lang’s futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.

* 56 years ago today, NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle, which became known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.

* Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications on this date in 1990.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

* German astronomer, Simon Marius, born on this date in 1573.

* Lazzaro Spallanzani, the Italian priest, biologist, and physiologist was born 289 years ago today.

* English physician and academic, founded Birkbeck, University of London, George Birkbeck was born 242 years ago today.

* Born January 10, 1780, German physician and explorer Martin Lichtenstein.

* Carl Ritter von Ghega, Italian-Austrian engineer, designed the Semmering railway was born on that same date in 1802.

* Italian paleontologist, archaeologist, and ethnographer, Luigi Pigorini, born on this date in 1842.

* American architect, designed the Rookery Building and Monadnock Building, John Wellborn Root was born 168 years ago today.

* Issai Schur, German mathematician and academic was born on that same date in 1875.

* Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, the Russian journalist, author, and poet was born 135 years ago today.

* Born January 10, 1891, German mathematician and academic Heinrich Behmann.

* Katharine Burr Blodgett, the American physicist and engineer was born 120 years ago today.

* American engineer and inventor, Gordon Kidd Teal was born 111 years ago today.

* Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born on that same date in 1916.

* American businessman, Roy E. Disney was born 88 years ago today.

* Also born on that same date in 1938,  American computer scientist and mathematician, Donald Knuth.

* American singer-songwriter and musician, Donald Fagen is 70 today.

* Also turning 65 today is American singer-songwriter Pat Benatar.

* Also born on that same date in 1962,  American computer scientist and academic, Kathryn S. McKinley.

Listener Birthdays

* 03 – Thomas Gideon (The Command Line Podcast)

* 06 – Steve Therrien (Canada)

* 08 – Elvis!

* 09 – Lingo from the Brit & Yankee pubcast

* 14 – Glynne Tolar