Technorama Ep367: What happens on Alpha Centauri…

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Introducing the team…

  • Shout out to the chat room
  • Happy Birthday to:
  • 07 – Chad W. Smith from Chattanooga, TN
  • 07 – Bryon the Big BS in PA, Williamsport PA
  • 08 – Jan Scott from Yorkshire, UK
  • 08 – Blake Noble
  • 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 February 6, 2013

This is February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 328 days remaining in 2013.

  • It was on this date in 1815 that New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens.
  • 95 years ago today British women over the age of 30 get the right to vote.
  • Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit today in 1959.
  • That same date at Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
  • Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport 15 years ago today.

Happy Birthday goes out on this day to

  • Mario Bettinus, Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer born on this date in 1582.
  • Also born on this date in 1695, Swiss mathematician Nicolaus Bernoulli
  • Swiss bridge engineer Robert Maillart was born today in 1872
  • Dmitry Pavlovich Grigorovich, the Russian aircraft designer was born 130 years ago today
  • The 40th President of the United States – Ronald Reagan was born Feb 6, 1911
  • One year younger than Ronald Reagan was Adolf Hitler’s girlfriend, Eva Braun
  • British anthropologist Mary Leakey was born today in 1913
  • Jun Kondo, Japanese theoretical physicist, turns 83
  • And finally, our list has been “Rick Rolled” – happy 47th birthday to British singer Rick Astley

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for February 6, 2013

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