Technorama Ep 377: We’ve returned from the dark side of a Worm Hole!

Coming up in this episode…

A Patrol in Space
Some Bizarre Aircrafts
and we explore where the origins of that funky symbol on your Mac Keyboard

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On This Day In History for July 17, 2013

This is July 17 it is the 198th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 167 days remaining until the end of the year.

It was on this date in 1856 that The Great Train Wreck of 1856 in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, kills over 60 people.
That same date in 1867 – Harvard School of Dental Medicine was established in Boston, Massachusetts. It was the first dental school in the U.S. that was affiliated with a university.
NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital today in 1899.
July 17 1955 – Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.
The “Small Boy” nuclear test shot known as Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada National Security Site on this date in 1962.
An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit today in 1975 – marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
On this date in 1981 – A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri killing 114 people and injuring more than 200.
The first flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber was 24 years ago today.
And it was this date in 1996 Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 flight 800 exploded, killing all 230 on board.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to

Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest, astronomer, and cosmologist born on this date in 1894
Actor James Cagney was also born today in 1899
Happy birthday to funny woman Phyllis Diller – she would have been 96 had she not passed away last year.
Inventor of the laser, physicist Gordon Gould was born on this date in 1920
Russian mathematician Sergei Godunov turns 84 today.
Other notable birthdays today include actor Donald Sutherland who turns 78
Prince Charles sweetie, Camilla the Duchess of Cornwall is 66
“The Hoff”, Actor David Hasselhoff is now 61
and finally Cory Doctorow turns 42

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for July 17, 2013

Hacks & Strange Stories

Remember When

Media Corner

How it is: Before ‘Star Trek’ and ‘Star Wars’ there was ‘Space Patrol’ – Marin Independent Journal

Geek Library

Some Bizarre Aircrafts – Imgur

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