Technorama Ep 396: Now legal in Colorado

Posted on January 14, 2014 by Kreg Steppe

Coming up in this episode…

  • Dragons
  • Peter Mayhew’s photographs
  • oh, and We’re Boned!

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On This Day In History for January 15, 2014

This is January 15, it is the 15th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 350 days remaining in 2014.

  • It was on this date in 1759 that the British Museum opens.
  • That same date in 1844, University of Notre Dame receives its charter from the state of Indiana.
  • The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia today in 1889.
  • January 15, 1919 – A large molasses tank in Boston, Massachusetts, bursts and a wave of molasses rushes through the streets, killing 21 people and injuring 150 others, known as the Boston Molasses Disaster.
  • Today in 1943 – The world’s largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.
  • The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5 on this date 45 years ago.
  • Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, turns 13 today.
  • and 9 years ago, ESA’s SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon.

Happy Birthday goes out on this day to:

  • Russian mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya, born on this date in 1850
  • Born on the same day in 1895, Finnish chemist and Nobel Prize laureate,  Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
  • Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb was born today in 1908.
  • German-Italian engineer Jean Bugatti, was born January 15, 1909. He died at the age of 30.
  • Actor Lloyd Bridges would have been 101 today.
  • and finally cryptographer and author Bruce Schneier turns 51

And don’t forget Friday January 17th is Ben Franklin Day.

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for January 15, 2014.

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  • 15 – Ralph Whitfield (aka GoofyRalph)
  • 17 – fuffy_frog (aka Kristina) from Canada
  • 21 – Michael Rabalais – Stingray42
  • If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki.

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