In this episode…
- A crack in the center of the earth
- The most expensive way to fly in to the sun
- A way to turn your dead relatives into a cheap source of fuel
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On This Day In History for June 13, 2012
- It was on this date in 1805 that Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, was scouting ahead with four companions and sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
- Also today in 1927 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker-tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
- An historic meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini takes place on June 13, 1934 in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later describes the German dictator as “a silly little monkey”.
- The first diamond mine in the USSR, the Mir Mine, is discovered today in 1955
- and today in 1969 – Governor of Texas Preston Smith signs a bill into law converting the former Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, originally founded as a research arm of Texas Instruments, into the University of Texas at Dallas.
- It was on this date in 1970 – “The Long and Winding Road” becomes the Beatles‘ last Number 1 song.
- Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured on June 13, 1977 after escaping from prison three days before.
- 29 years ago Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune (the furthest planet from the Sun at the time)
- 18 years ago a jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
- A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing on this date in 1997.
- and just 2 short years ago, a capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth
Happy Birthday goes out on this day to:
- Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell, the man who helped us understand the relationship between magnets and electricty born today in 1831
- Also born today in 1906, Italian mathematician Bruno de Finetti
- American physicist and Nobel laureat, Luis Alvarez was born today in 1911
- That same birthday is shared with German-born physicist Erwin Wilhelm Müller
- American mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr. celebrates his 84th birthday today
- Dr. Tolian Soran from Star Trek Generations, actor Malcolm McDowell turns 69
- and finally Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman turns 46.
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for June 13, 2012
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